Action Quote by Peggy Kopman-Owens

“...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had…

— Chris Marker

“He clutched the watch hard in his fist, determined to destroy it, to prove that it couldn't be real. That she hadn't come here…

— Kelly Creagh

“I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide--sometimes from the children but more…

— Alice Munro

“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like…

— Barbara Elsborg

“He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in…

— Lish McBride

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite…

— Charles Dickens

“This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.”

— Ian Rankin

“The past is a good place for the past.”

— Deb Caletti

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been…

— Rupert Thomson

“She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.”

— Salman Rushdie

“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.”

— Glyn Iliffe