It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

—Adi Alsaid in Let's Get Lost

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About Adi Alsaid

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Adi Alsaid (born June 30, 1987) is a Mexican-born author of young adult fiction. His debut novel, Let's Get Lost, was a YALSA Teens' Top Ten Nominee in 2015. His second stand-alone novel, Never Always Sometimes, was nominated as a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015.

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Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.

—Adi Alsaid in Let's Get Lost

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To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—The Teaching of Buddha

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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

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