“The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”

“Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.”

“It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

“What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?”

“The present doesn’t change the past. Is the fact that the past happened enough to make the present good? Is the past real? Was it real anymore?”

“Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”