“It was a kiss from the past.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”

“For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood.”

“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”

“So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past.”