“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”
Sheri S. Tepper book Grass
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 385)
“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”
— Laura Anne Gilman, book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 215
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