“You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.”

“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

“Then how about one kiss?' he said with a sexy grin. 'Something to remember me by?'

'I’ll give you something to remember me by,' I said. The back of my head.' I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.”

“O little one,
My little one,
Come with me,
Your life is done.

Forget the future,
Forget the past.
Life is over:
Breathe your last.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.”

“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.”

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

“No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”