“He's going to be sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain and remember what an incredible woman you are.”— Unknown, quotesgram.com
“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”— Rafiki, amazon.com
“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”— Robert Guillaume, Rafiki, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, Dr. Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Regardless of what our vulnerabilities and wounds are, we do not deserve to be abused or mistreated. Being a trauma survivor does not mean we deserve extra wounding or that we ask for it – quite the contrary. It makes the person who is attempting to wound us by using our past wounds all the more sic…”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“The future is scary, but you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar.”— Robin Scherbatsky, amazon.com
“When I close my eyes, my head is filled with images of past and future lives, the things I dreamed I wanted, the things I had and threw away.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com