“The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.”
“It was over before it had even begun”
“Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.”
“Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue".~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
“The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.”
“Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.”