“The inseparable bond between past and future is the cause and effect of our collective beliefs and the choices influenced by them.”

“I mean, it’s ridiculous,” Dhuey says. “It’s outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.”

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.”

“I've always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect.”

“The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents -- contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them. ”

“Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”