Ally Carter Quotes

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

We all look for lost time.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

You have to reinvent love.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful. There was transformation.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

I used to be.

When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I am pulling on those threads. The more I pull, the more it comes unraveled.

A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's people you haven't seen in a while, there are people that have passed away, and there are people you owe phone calls to.

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