I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.
My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.