If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.