Lessons Quote by Kate Chopin

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

— Freya North

“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

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

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“We commented to her about the practicalness of everything she recalled, how her memories seemed to throw a spotlight on problems and decisions we…

— Corrie ten Boom

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

— Emma Lazarus

because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it…

— Nicholas Sparks

“The past can't be changed," she said. "The future can't be predicted. All we really have is the present. So none of that matters…

— Olivia Cunning

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

— Gregory Alan Isakov

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

— David Nicholls

“There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time…

— Alexander McCall Smith