"I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize……" — Jeffrey Eugenides

"I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards."

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. — Lewis Carroll

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