“All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.”
“Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.”
“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...”
“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”
“We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.”
“She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.”