"Well, I'd say after a few decades you forget how short it all was. That was only twenty years of a sixteen hundred year life. I was already six hundred by the time I met him. Yet despite it being... my, it's been seven centuries! .....Despite that... I feel as though I'm still never going to give him up. I can't let go of his memory even though it may be easiest to let him fade.
He is the moon to my sea, and without him I would surely overflow."
-Tempted to Serena, Seventeen Fifty Six, on Alec