There's always been a passage in The Once and Future King that has struck me as being extremely sad. Specifically, it is when Merlin, a wizard cursed to live his life "backwards" (His life started at the end of "our" time, and he grows older as the years fall off) meets with young "Wart" (the future King Arthur).
As Wart comes out of the woods looking for Cully, the Hawk which he lost, he comes upon Merlin for the first time. After about 30 minutes go by, and introductions of course, Merlin goes on to explain how he lives living backwards while most live forwards.
"He [Merlin] stopped talking and looked at the Wart in an anxious way.
'Have I told you this before?'
'No, we only met about a half hour ago.'
'So little time to pass?' said Merlin, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose. He wiped it off with his pajamas..."
Like, being deadass serious, that sucks huge balls. Goodbyes are hard enough when you've known someone your whole life, and here comes Merlin who has to say goodbye to a boy who has technically never even met him. It's horrible, gets me every time. Seriously, I just have to read that passage and I'm in some big philosophical mood all night, it's terrible.
Just my two cents.
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