“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
“The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly”
“Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.”
“Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…”
“What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe.”
“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.”