Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should take an oath I must have read when I was a youngster in some old book... the words have suddenly come back to me. They go like this: We (and then we say our own names), Nathaniel Chanticleer and Ambrose Honeysuckle, swear by the Living and the Dead, by the Past and the Future, by Memories and Hopes, that if a Vision comes begging at our door we will take it in and warm it at our hearth, and that we will not be wiser than the foolish nor more cunning than the simple, and that we will remember that he who rides the Wind needs must go where his Steed carries him.
Hope MirrleesTags: memories visions the-future the-past hopes oaths the-dead nathaniel-chanticleer ambrose-honeysuckle riding-the-wind the-living
The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
Jamaica KincaidTags: life advice-for-daily-living the-past
Sometimes it's more painful to draw to mind the good times
Amy MolloyThat's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
Jeffery DeaverTags: the-past
...how time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see.
Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter Crooked LetterTags: secrets the-past baggage
A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn’t even realize it.
Shannon L. AlderTags: children stupidity fraud anger memories betrayal competition desperate the-past cheater player cheaters battles-within blindsighted gullible-women lack-of-trust stimulus-seeking tempation unfinished-business weak-women
I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole year is just a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The year or so I’d spent in love with Chad was starting to feel so long ago, swept away by the wind. I knew that this year would soon feel far away too.
Kimberly NovoselTags: pain love relationships grief healing the-past in-love leaves
The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.
Andrew LevkoffTags: past future present the-past present-moment
It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature.
Andrew LevkoffTags: time aging the-past time-passing
...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...
John GeddesTags: life poetry memories moments the-past desolation keepsakes
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