It's up to you, not fate.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

I'll see you soon. I promise.__nd there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. Elijah doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock. The sense. That feeling of something happening that was meant to happen. Two people fitting in a space and time.For a moment.

How did my world get so small?

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy.