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1 " Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else. "
― Leah Raeder , Unteachable
2 " We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now. "
― Amy Leigh Mercree , The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
3 " We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could thus be endured more easily, it would not be measured against what no longer exists. As things are, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually "
― Meša Selimović
4 " That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future. "
― Isaac Marion , Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)
5 " We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could thus be endured more easily, it would not be measured against what no longer exists. As things our, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually. "
― Meša Selimović , Death and the Dervish
6 " So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory--hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures. "
7 " My mom used to say that’s why we have memory. And the opposite of memory—hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures. "
8 " From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be. "
― Jamie A. Hughes
9 " Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past "
― Cora Carmack , Faking It (Losing It, #2)
10 " I'm sorry. For all of us. Sorry for all the little ways the people who were supposed to love us most could hurt us so deeply, despite their shared heritage and blood, as thought their knowledge of our pasts gave them unlimited access to all the most tender places, the old wounds that could be so easily reopened with no more than a glance, a comment, a passing reminder of all the ways in which we failed to live up to their expectations. "
― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids
11 " We all have our pasts and baggage, Mimi. It’s our decision whether they fuck with our future. "
― Katie Ashley , Beat of the Heart (Runaway Train, #2)
