“She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...”
“I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?"Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?”
“She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.”
“They stare at her, not seeing the woman she is or the girl she was none too long ago, but a mere puzzle. An intractable puzzle - bemusing and a little frustrating, but capable of being solved nonetheless.”
“It is not like a premonition of death.It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.”
“She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She's just afraid.”