“Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.”
“London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.”
“It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.”
“It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?”
“As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.”