“All night, this soft rain from the distant past. No wonder I sometimes waken as a child.”— Ted Kooser, amazon.com
“Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle,Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.Thirty years now I have laboredTo dredge the silt from your throat.I am none the wiser.”— Sylvia Plath, poetryfoundation.org
“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment — we are all defined by something we can’t change.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“It is not our memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”— Marie Kondo, amazon.com
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com