Seanan McGuire Quotes

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

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

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

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.

I exist only in the past.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

There is no past that we can bring back to us by the longing for it.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

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

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

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

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.