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The past is always tense, the future perfect. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#grammar #language #past #past

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#past

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus] ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dark-hunter #sherrilyn-kenyon #past

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#past

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#past

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#be happy #better #find #future #happy

My past is everything I failed to be. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#past #self #time #past

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure

A lot of you cared, just not enough. ↗

— Jay Asher

#suicide #tragedy #reason

A soft noise, almost a sob. Ash rose, hesitated, as if fighting the compulsion to obey. "I will always be your knight, Meghan Chase," he whispered in a strained voice, as if every moment he remained was painful to him. "And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise." And then he was gone. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

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