2 Quotes by Jesse Ball (author)

A life is long, and we are many people, variously, in our guises, in our situations, but some part of us is the same, and what I felt as a boy I find myself able to feel now -- a sad and powerful longing for a future that did not ever come, with all its attendant worries and fears.

In reply, my son, never one to be hurried, especially at his gladdest moments, moved one of his three kings, I doubt it even mattered which, and smiled down at the board where the teeth of the torn cobs spread like drawn suns.