Brad Meltzer Quotes

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

You can't think about the past anymore.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything is about being attached to the past and being afraid of moving forward, afraid of that big dive or step and losing what was.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

We're not going to think about what's happened in the past.

There ain't no future in the past.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.