Alive Quote by J.R. Ward

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous…

— Scott Westerfeld

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

— Emma Lazarus

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

— Don DeLillo

It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been…

— Anna Godbersen

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

— Sam Shepard

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For…

— Walt Whitman

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

— Arundhati Roy

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

— Laura Whitcomb