Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

The speaker contrasts “forever”—an abstract promise of permanence—with the immediacy of lived experience. When someone is fully absorbed in a present moment (often a first love, a rare peace, or a fleeting high), the future becomes conceptually irrelevant; time collapses into “now.” The second sentence introduces the ache that follows: the recognition that even the most vivid moments are temporary, and that desire cannot stop time. The quote captures a tension common in Hopkins’s work between intensity and aftermath—how craving (for love, escape, or relief) can make endings feel like loss, even when the moment itself may be complicated or fragile.