“It happens to everyone and it happens fast.”
“Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”
“In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.”
“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.”
“His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”
“How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?”