“I know that Europe’s wonderful, yet something seems to lack;
The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.”

“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”

“I don't know how it is… but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.”

“Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder,
So I can't look back for too long.
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me,
and I know that I just can't go wrong.”

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.”

“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

“I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!”

“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too.”