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  1. William Timothy Murray _ The Bellringer

    Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.
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  2. Nicholas Sparks _ Safe Haven

    because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.
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  3. Nicholas Sparks _ The Choice

    The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
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  4. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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  5. George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss

    I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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  6. Martin Amis _ Other People

    When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
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  7. Monica Ali _ Brick Lane

    while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.
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  8. Daphne Du Maurier _ Rebecca

    We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.
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  9. Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind

    But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
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  10. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.
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  11. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it."
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  12. Adolfo Bioy Casares _ The Invention of Morel

    The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.
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