“By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.”
“If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.”
“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
“How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?”
“It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.”
“Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago...”