“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don’t look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us…Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads- at least that’s where I imagine it- there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the st…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’m not interested in your past, I’m interested about what makes you tick, what makes you angry, what keeps you sane - tell me those things. You have my undivided attention. People waste so much time on reputation that they simply forget that you aren’t the same person who did those things back then…”— Unknown, quotemadness.com
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.”— Robert Crais, articles.sun-sentinel.com
“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”— Richard Kadrey, amazon.com
“And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“The past is gone for good. You can sit here mourning it’s departure, or prepare for the future.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”— Zadie Smith, amazon.com
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com