It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

He sparked a fire inside of me, making me want to live again.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

How many days was I like that? Pretending to listen, but not hearing a word? Pretending to care when I hated it all? Pretending to live when I was dying inside?

—Lisa Schroeder in Chasing Brooklyn

Funny how time goes on, things change, and yet, some things stay exactly the same.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still.

—Lisa Schroeder in Chasing Brooklyn

Maybe it's not about determination or love or how hard you can fight. Maybe it's just about fate and what is meant to be.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

—Confucius

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

—William Ralph Inge

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

—Sir William Osler

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

—Lyndon B. Johnson