“I have not spoken to him for ten years, but I thought of him every single day.”— Ruth Ware, amazon.com
“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“You need to know that a truly strong, independent woman does not walk through life with her heart wide open. She has had to put up walls to block toxicity to obtain her strength. She is skeptical and always on alert from a lifetime of defense against predators. She is going to be a bit jaded, a litt…”— Maggie Young, amazon.com
“You know each other’s histories. The skeletons are out of the closet, you’ve learned them, accepted them, and understand them. Any issues he’s had prior to your relationship won’t interfere with what you establish moving forward.”— Stacey Becker, thoughtcatalog.com
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”— Tim O'Brien, amazon.com
“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It was becoming a habit--this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Not everybody out there is a jerk, no matter what has happened in the past. In fact, most people are decent and looking for love. Rather than expecting the worst, it is more productive to look for what is different and better. That is the only way to find it!”— Jeremy Nicholson, psychologytoday.com
“Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“People make mistakes, but if they're willing to put the past behind them, then we should too.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.”— Chris Bohjalian, books.google.com
“What I’ve come to realize is that all my fears of the future are actually fears of the past. Each of us has a whole bank of awful moments in our memories, each of which are so painful that we can’t accept that we could experience the same pain again.”— David Cain, thoughtcatalog.com