Suzanne Collins Quotes

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

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

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

Sometimes it feels like just yesterday that my ex and my baby boys were snuggling on the couch with me in our gorgeous Calabasas home. Other times, it feels like it was all a crazy dream.

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

The past is a closed door.

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

I don't think you can ever return, really.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.