Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.