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Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past


Cora Carmack

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BO BENNETT I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
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MOE I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
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“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
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Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
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JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
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JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
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JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.
She snapped the box closed...
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CORA CARMACK I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don...
CORA CARMACK WAIT, WAIT! JUST one more!”
“Bliss, there are children waiting.”
And they probably h...
CORA CARMACK Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She...
CORA CARMACK Bliss, I don’t normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming her...
CORA CARMACK If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.
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CORA CARMACK She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
CORA CARMACK He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.
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CORA CARMACK It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the l...
CORA CARMACK If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like. I shouldn't like it,...
CORA CARMACK The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves--it w...
CORA CARMACK Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to...
CORA CARMACK Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?
CORA CARMACK You are unbelievably sexy.
CORA CARMACK What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.
CORA CARMACK No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are...
CORA CARMACK You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the w...
CORA CARMACK we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.
CORA CARMACK No matter how close, you are always too far
My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.

I...
CORA CARMACK Suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been...
CORA CARMACK Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
WARREN CUCCURULLO I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
MURRAY WALKER The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor var...
G. STANLEY HALL Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Even though we lost a lot we still got some people who can play. We've proven that in the past and w...
JAMES PHILLIPS Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo...
GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Many learn from the past
but few do something with it.
Take Action.
Struggles bring...
FARSHAD ASL Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. P...
JACKIE CHAN Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
RICHARD ROEPER Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
CAROL BELLAMY I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I wa...
TAYLOR SWIFT Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
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JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

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