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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
Robert Browning
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
Mike Norton
Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.
Jo Dereske
...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...
John Geddes
I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.
Susie Clevenger
He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you push it down, the truth always comes to the surface.
Louise Douglas