“The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.”
“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“Why didn t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
“It s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
“Ah, my little angel! My paragon of love and my light of hope for the future.”
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There s magic in that. It s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.”
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
“I m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
“I love that you get cold when it s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you re looking at me like I m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it s not because I m lonely, and it s not because it s New Year s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”