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> [“she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kay-andrews/she-felt-the-past-come-rushing-back-with-a-ferocity-that-nearly/)

[Mary Kay Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kay-andrews/)

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> [“I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-brashares/i-felt-as-though-the-past-and-the-future-cause-and-effect-patterns/)

[Ann Brashares](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-brashares/)

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> [“It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man he’d felt the past several…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heidi-betts/it-made-him-feel-like-less-of-a-man-and-given-how-much-less-of-a-man/)

[Heidi Betts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heidi-betts/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6b/heidi-betts-62431_ex_it-made-him-feel-like-less-of-a-man-and_502630.jpg)

> [Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-frey/everything-i-know-and-i-am-and-i-have-seen-felt-done-past-present/)

[James Frey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-frey/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fc/james-frey-1108_done_everything-i-know-and-i-am-and-i-have-se_521527.jpg)

> [“Certainly the past doesn't exist anywhere outside our own heads. I have never touched, kicked, or felt the past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-johnson/certainly-the-past-doesn-t-exist-anywhere-outside-our-own-heads-i/)

[Matthew Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-johnson/)

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> [I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/i-ve-felt-that-in-the-past-where-i-just-felt-like-i-had-to-keep/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

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> [“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/some-felt-that-perhaps-in-his-past-lay-a-tragedy-with-which-he-had/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a00/dean-koontz-118_grief_some-felt-that-perhaps-in-his-past-lay-a_2672828.jpg)

> [In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-ward/in-the-silence-she-felt-the-past-and-the-present-shift-and-mix-but/)

[J.R. Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-ward/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/151/j-r-ward-148_arms_in-the-silence-she-felt-the-past-and-the_2688907.png)

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