Lauren Oliver Quotes

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

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

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

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?

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

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.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

The best years are behind me.