“Why couldn't Sam really be a boy my age, with no more experience than I had? No past lives, past loves.Why couldn't he be only for me?”
“I couldn't dream of a future, I couldn't reliably remember my past.”
“We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...”
“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”
“For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives.”
“The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever:Someday you and I will be the only two left.”