We are now as I wished we could be then.
Night falls fast. Today is the past.
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
The best time is always yesterday.
We could have had it all...
Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
The past is where its supposed to be.
I am not living in the past.
We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
