“If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.”

“He missed his imagined future.”

“A friend once told me the hurt that came with the end of a relationship was painful because it was the death of a dream—the future you’d imagined with a lover, a loved one, a child, or a friend. That loss was its own painful, nearly tangible thing. You had to reimagine your future, perhaps in a different place, with different people, doing different things than you might have first imagined.”

“And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“Dearest dumpling, one day your imagination is going to get you into trouble," whispered his mother.He would never do that," Pecorino replied. "We're best friends.”