“The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.”

“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”

“Certainly the past doesn't exist anywhere outside our own heads. I have never touched, kicked, or felt the past.”

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

“I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.”