Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
History won't let go of us. We're pinned to it.
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.
But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.
But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.
