past feeling Quotes

“Had our hearts really become so numb . . . Who am I if I need to be shocked back into my best self?”

“Dumbfounded, I stared at him like an apparition from a past life. He wasn’t supposed to be here, couldn’t be, and yet he was. The wind howled around me, ruffling my hair as it hissed its warnings to tread ever so carefully.”

“My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood. ”

“Beg forgiveness, indeed! After fourteen years! I see no purpose to it. The dead are dead; those who remain behind cannot forget. But then, just as I am about to close my heart against Ann, I recollect my part in the madness that came to our village in 1692. And I know I am as guilty as Ann or any of the girls in that circle of accusers.”

″So thank you, Justin. Sincerely. My very first kiss was wonderful. And for the month or so that we lasted, and everywhere that we went, the kisses were wonderful. You were wonderful.”

“Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn’t be together any more.”

“He felt no nostalgia or doubt, or apprehension. Things were still indisputably whole as he was himself.”