Burden Of The Past Quotes

“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard.”
― Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow

“Lucy had told me more than once that the past was a burden, that it was time to tear everything down.”
― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth