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Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island
She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic."
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Michael Marshall Smith _ Only Forward
Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again,
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Daphne du Maurier _ Rebecca
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again,
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot
Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.
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David Baldacci _ King and Maxwell
That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.
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William Maxwell _ So Long, See You Tomorrow
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw."
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams
Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.
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Alan Brennert _ Honolulu
Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
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Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A
It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.
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Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine
She lay awake for many hours into the night, among her trunks and trinkets. She glanced over at the neat stacks of materials and toys and opera plumes and said, aloud, "Does it really belong to me?" Or was it the elaborate trick of an old lady convincing herself that she had a past? After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. She may have been a girl once, but was not now. Her childhood was gone and nothing could fetch it back.
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Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine
My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? They'll only hurt you later. Throw them away, my dear.
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