I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ

It was a bolt from the blue.

This is the flagship. It gets the national introduction.

It was strange not having him there. What's happened was a bolt out of the blue but I think he's going to be OK and I just can't wait to have him back with me again.

Time itself comes in drops.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.