S. E. Hinton Quotes

That was then. This is now.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

The future is now.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

The good old days are now.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

I like change and I like contrast.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?