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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

Sarah Dessen

Past, Remember You, Remembers You

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.208, Penguin

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Sarah Dessen

Past, Together, World

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

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.

Sarah Dessen

Inspirational, Running, Past

"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

Sarah Dessen

Silly, Past, Pieces

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.230, Penguin

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Sarah Dessen

Past, Chance, This Life

Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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

Tired, Past, Burden

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.131, Penguin

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

Sarah Dessen

Past, World, Headings

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.343, Penguin

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Sarah Dessen

Past, Should Have, Secret

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

Sarah Dessen

Past, Way, Ends

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied

Sarah Dessen

Basketball, Dad, Past