“Even angels have a past and even devils have a future.”
“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Luciensaid mildly, “that we can even have a future”
“Everybody has a past—even if it lies in the future.”
“Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils.”
“... some people - think only the present is real. The past and the future don't even exist. ... And some people say that the future and the present are made up of a lot of different worlds. Each world comes out of a different set of circumstances that might have happened in the past.”
“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”