Everyday Quote by Lauren Oliver

“They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“They were here from the beginning. They have reshaped our lives, run us from our homes. They were always here.”

— Nadège Richards

“If you need me, just focus on us and I'll be here. Despite what happened with others in the past, I will show up.”

— Melyssa Winchester

“That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?”

— Donal Ryan

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

“We are here, and then we are gone, and it's not about the time we're, but what we do with that time.”

— Rick Yancey

“The past is done. It’s really about who we are now.”

— Curtis Bunn

“And there remains people in your life that you remember, wishing if, either, they stayed longer or never came in the first place.”

— Sarah Adel

“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“That sometimes the past can resurface, wrap around us and consume us in all the ways it did before.”

— Veronica Larsen

“They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—”

— Maryrose Wood

“...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]”

— James Vescovi