Empty Quote by David Nicholls

“She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.”

— Tom Perrotta

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment.…

— Khaled Hosseini

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted…

— Kate Chopin

“On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“the future is not foreseen, but revealed day by day through living”

— Elaine Allen

“Certainly she no longer thinks of the future, because every day the future proves itself to be a duplicate of the present. So instead…

— David R. Gillham

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

— Eleanor Catton

“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early…

— Kate Chopin

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine,…

— Toni Morrison

“She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward.”

— William Kely McClung