“The past is a bucket of ashes”
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
“Scatter the ashes of the past, happy in the wind. It is so healing, when you start again.”
“I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.”
“Do not settle for a drop in the bucket and kick the bucket;there is more to life.”
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to repeat the past.”