“It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.”
“You didn't mind someone shutting out the world as long as they were happy to take you inside with them.”
“As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.”
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience”
“Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...”
“Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.”