Adventure Quote by Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

“Certainly she no longer thinks of the future, because every day the future proves itself to be a duplicate of the present. So instead…

— David R. Gillham

“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

“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not…

— Rabih Alameddine

“I scrub the memory from my mind. There is no past. There is no future. Love, if that's what it is, is as short…

— Chloe Thurlow

“It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.”

— Samuel R. Delany

“Time… Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past. We do not hold on to the now, and We do not treasure the future……

— Michelle Horst

“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.”

— Iain M. Banks

“But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.”

— Betty Smith

“She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.”

— Lev Grossman

“She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”

— James Conroyd Martin

“It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.”

— Rachel Abbott

“I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.”

— Gennifer Albin