This time it's like window shopping.

It's what you've been busting your butt for and finally, it happens. This time it's like window shopping.

He said at the time that the book scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. It changed him.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves.

It has taken some time,

I've known Jerry a long time, and he isn't a guy who sits back, or tries to 'get along' with everybody. He's a pleasant enough fellow, but if he's unhappy about something he's going to blurt it out.