Hannah Bronfman Quotes

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Everybody's got some things that have happened bad in their past. Mine was just very public.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

I realized I'd built up walls and carried grudges for years. I had a lot of animosity, dating back to when I was growing up, toward people who told me that what I was doing datingwise was wrong.

When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.