“For the first time in twenty-two years after the jaw tilt, Feb didn’t take her eyes off him. And for the first time in twenty-two years, he gave her a smile.”
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”
“For the first time in twenty-one years, I want to be kissed. I want to feel his mouth on mine.”
“Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.”