Quotes of: Recent-past Keyword

Everything we think we know, everything we think we see, everything we believe we feel, taste, smell, or hear, everything we “remember” (our pasts), everything we want to happen (our futures), everything that has ever existed or will ever exist, ...

Single Dad Laughing

Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and s...

Nights at the Circus

Your past experiences are past indeed; those strains and emotions of sensuous life are gone and what has remained is the temple of your own building, that edifice not built by hands. The reality of you is in the invisible, the intangible. In retrospe...

Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when th...

Silas Marner

And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Mem...

Two Worlds and in Between

Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in the air, the wind that finally whirled away the dust that society had permitted to settle over the horrors o...

The Reader

It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I had the courage to seek out more of the seedy, the ...

A Widow for One Year

There's no task in this life more difficult than forgiving a loved one,when we're hurt by someone we love,something breaks inside us that leaves us paralyzed and unable to think clearly,if your love was true and unconditional, you'll love them no mat...

Michael Hayssus

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around ou...

Kafka on the Shore

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Want to know the common element for the entire group?... I'll tell you the answer: I'll tell you, 'cause I had that one. I had that question... Carbon. Carbon. In pencil lead, it's in the form of graphite and in coal, it's mixe...

Magnolia

[first lines] Narrator: One early morning / Lifting the dark blanket of the night / From its pillow of mountain peak / The sun lifted its head / And saw... / The valley's heart is filled with the season of love / And the branches of memories have spr...

Veer-Zaara

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

The Cold Cold Ground

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.

Crimson Leaf

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

The Charlemagne Pursuit

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

Candy Store

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Dragon Bones

Look, you can't change your past, Ditty, but you've still got your future.

Dancing in the Dark

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.

A Day in the Dark

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

Drowning Instinct

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters