“One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.”
“You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.”
“You cannot change the past. All you can do is change the way you allow the past to affect your present and future.”
“What is past, one cannot change,so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”
“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”