It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn’t know them anymore.
– Ashley Newell
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- Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
- Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it. – Rebecca Maizel
- You’re surprised at all the blood.He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.He’s surprised, too. – Charles Benoit
- The past is always tense, the future perfect. – Zadie Smith
- And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
- Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense. – Auliq Ice
- The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. – Lex Martin
- I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar-”it was tense. – Kelli Russell Agodon
- Death was painful, not because people couldn’t see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn’t communicate with them anymore. – Karen McQuestion
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- They say things about these woods…that there are strange things living here. – Kaylie Newell
- Don’t ever, ever try to lie to the internet – because they will catch you. – Gabe Newell
- Vayoo ansha.-I shook my head and whispered, -œNever. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore.-** – Kristen Ashley
- Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew. – Shannon L Alder
- A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. – Joshua Foer
- We sing because we can’t speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that – we dance because we can’t speak anymore. – Kristin Chenoweth
- Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore? – Dominic Riccitello
- It’s not sad that I don’t love you anymore, it’s I can’t love anyone anymore. – Pushpa Rana
- Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there’s Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there’s YouTube. – Lisa Bedrick
- Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
- Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. – Anthony Burgess
- He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him. – Philip Zaleski
- Just looking at him made Andrew feel tense and irritated. It was wonder perfect strangers didn’t go up to the guy and punch him in the face. – Jane Davitt
- My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. – Michael Pollan
- Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. – Siri Hustvedt
- I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long. – Brenda Perlin
- Quietly…softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love. – Shawntel Jefferson
- Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It’s like I’m writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. – Andrew Shaffer
- Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It’s like I’m writing a novel. – Andrew Shaffer
- I see my mother exactly as she is -“ sad and strong, tense and trying. – Corey Ann Haydu
- We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense. – Dennis Potter
- Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. – Andromeda Edison
- Once you’re already in hell, it’s too late to beg for mercy. – Devon Ashley
- You’d be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. – Chuck Palahniuk