Time Quote by Jenna Blum

“Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.”

— Lian Hearn

“i felt ashamed. i stared down at the ground and stood very still and very quietly.”

— Ellen Kennedy

“MOSTLY, they were ashamed of us.”

— Julie Otsuka

“I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.”

— Nicole Lyons

“You know, there was a part of me that was so defiant, and a part of me that was so ashamed, and I really…

— Courtney Eldridge

“I'd prefer to think that we aren't all so mercilessly bound to our pasts.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...”

— John Geddes

“...the past was so painful at any point. It seared and burned.”

— Theodore Dreiser

“I confessed my past. I left it behind. Must I be reminded of it forever?”

— Sylvain Reynard

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he…

— Elena Ferrante

“I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so…

— Diana Athill

“He nodded and dabbed at his forehead with his sleeve. “And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal,…

— Hugh Howey