“It's been a long time comingBut I know a change is gonna come”

“It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.”

“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.”

“As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?”

“I knew you would come,” he said, “in the end. I have been waiting a long, long time.”Time seemed to change as he spoke its name, bending out of shape, out of rhythm, curving round to encapsulate them in their own miniature cosmos. The past was coiled around the future: the present was an isolated moment, belonging nowhere, trapped at random in a maze of inverse reflections.”

“We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.”