Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

—Ann Aguirre in Hell Fire

About Ann Aguirre

Ann Aguirre (born August 27, 1970) is an American author of speculative fiction. They write urban fantasy, romantic science fiction, apocalyptic paranormal romance (with co-author Carrie Lofty as Ellen Connor), paranormal romantic suspense (as Ava Gray), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction.

More quotations from Ann Aguirre

What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

loss punishment self-flagellation

He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

I always have someplace else I'd rather be, even if I don't know where that is.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

—Ann Aguirre in Doubleblind

Sometimes I miss the old me.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

time identity change self

More quotations tagged with “past”

I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

relationships past fate answers

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

—William Faulkner

time memory past

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

—Veronica Roth in Divergent

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There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

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