Past tense Quotes

“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”

“Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.”

“Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense.”

“Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?”

“It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.”

“Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.”

“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.”

“I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime — and that’s OK.”

“who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto put us in past tense. as ifthe air in this city were the same.as if love is anything like its speaking.”