When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too–leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been. Margaret Atwood
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Time is fluid. We can never escape our pasts. Life has a habit of bringing the people and things we've lost back to us, over and over. If you think life is disposable, you cannot escape the consequences of your decisions.

If you think life is passing you by, it's not; it's moving you along with it. Your future will be like your past, and vice versa.

Source: The Blind Assassin

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