When the death hour comes
 though I'm shooing these thoughts away
 I want to have time to whisper one thing:
 Darling, I love you.

  --Lt. Capt. Dmitri Kolesnikov,
   commander of the Kursk's turbine team
   in a note written to his wife Olga shortly before his death

  "Pooh, promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred." 
  Pooh thought for a little. "How old shall I be then?" 
  "Ninety-nine." 
  Pooh nodded. "I promise," he said. 

  --Elizabeth Gunby