I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.