Norway Quote by Thomas Gallagher

“My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past..”

— Gillian Flynn

“As I sat there, I found myself thinking of things I hadn't thought of for years, old emotions watching over me, new thoughts and…

— Jojo Moyes

“People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry…

— Erin Bowman

“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.”

— Alexandra Adornetto

“Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly…

— George Saunders

“The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“But even in that very brief period of time I was made abundantly aware of the extent to which various things inside me had…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.”

— Virginia Woolf

“In order to move forward, you had to let the past go—and sometimes that meant mental shifts that happened on the inside…whereas with others,…

— J.R. Ward

“The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.”

— Anatol Lieven

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I lost the ability to fear and panic. Instead I felt practical and causal. I had never known time to pass so acutely before.…

— Sarah Hall