“Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.”
“It's all in the past. Leave it there.”
“When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.”
“We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.”
“I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me”
“As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.”