Debut-author Quote by Heather Demetrios

“The past is written on my body. I carry it every single day. The past sometimes feels like it might kill me.”

— Roxane Gay

“Here is the perennial trouble with burying your past. Others are forever trying to dig it up.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”

— Carl Sandburg

“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I've spent too much of my life trying to leave the past behind. But the past is a leech. Digs its head into you…

— Barbara Nickless

“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind & the gibberish of trees rubbing together,…

— Lauren Oliver

“I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.”

— michele vail

“We might be done with the past but the past isnt done with us. Ever think of that? Maybe the only way to move…

— Dannika Dark

“I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.”

— bilal

“We forget most of our past but embody all of it.”

— Adam Begley

“Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.”

— Ilsa J. Bick