“It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.”

“Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future.”

“We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

“Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.”

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

“Youth faces forward, impatient of the present, panting to anticipate the future. But we who have crossed a certain sad meridian, we turn our gaze backward,and tell the relentless gods what we would sacrifice to recover a little of the past...”