I am the collector of the past.
Ashley Newell, Freakhouse.
“It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.”
“Zac dangled his legs off the edge of the building, hanging onto every word I said as though I were some old time bard telling an epic war tale. I tried to be as detailed as possible, and I knew tha...”
“Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up.""Had to happen sometime," I say.”
“You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man.”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”