Haunted Past Quotes

“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters