Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

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?

The past is a closed door.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Whether it was good or bad, that was the day, and you have to let it go.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

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

I can't really dwell on the past.

I just don't like to talk about the past.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

The past is over.

I won't cling to the past.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.

I can't dwell on the past. It's over, there's nothing I can do about it.

I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.

The past is just something that's over.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

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

No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

I don't talk about the past.