“You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind
I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.”

“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer

“You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

“You get your mucky fingers burnt / You get your truth from the lies that you've learnt
Fed up with life in the city / 'Cos all the phonies have blown my mind
It's all mine!”

Noel Gallagher (1967) British musician

“And I want you to know something man, we all feel really bad that when you were in Troop 182 the Scout master rubbed your butt at the overnight jamboree. But what are you like 30 now? You've got life on backwards, come here let me flip it, there see, now your past is behind you. What's say you climb down off the cross use the wood to build a bridge and get over it.”

Christopher Titus (1964) actor, writer, podcaster

“Give me steam.
And how you feel to make it real;
Real as anything you've seen.
Get a life with this dreamer's dream.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

“Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace?
Simon: I heard that and NO… You've seen him naked?
Clary: Well not entirely but-
Simon: Enough”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls