" 'Makes you feel a bit unimportant, doesn't it?' they say. I suppose that is one way of looking at it - how the age of the universe somehow diminishes our lives or the events of history or Joe Di Maggio's streak. But Rosie's response was a verbal version of mine. 'Wow', she said, very quietly, looking back at the vastness of it all. Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and hold it all the way to the subway."
" 'Makes you feel a bit unimportant, doesn't it?' they say. I suppose that is one way of looking at it - how the age of the universe somehow diminishes our lives or the events of history or Joe Di Maggio's streak. But Rosie's response was a verbal version of mine. 'Wow', she said, very quietly, looking back at the vastness of it all. Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and hold it all the way to the subway."