Ann Brashares Quotes

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

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

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.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

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

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

The past is just something that's over.

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

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.

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

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.

The past cannot be cured.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

The past is over.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

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

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Now, there's no use crying over spoiled milk.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.