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I loved him so much. Love him so much. I don't know why I use the past tense. It's not as if love dies with the beloved. — Kate Atkinson

My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past — Munia Khan

And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead — Rick Yancey

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense. — Wes Fesler

The past is always tense, the future perfect. — Zadie Smith

The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. — Zadie Smith

You said you loved me, is that now in the past tense?" "No, it's not." "Good. — E.L. James

There's no past tense when you lose someone, Jed. You just keep on loving them. — Garrett Leigh

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense. — John Green

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. — John Green

Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. — Marlon James

A man's conscience shouts so much more loudly in the past tense than it ever manages to achieve in the present. — Jasper Kent

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being? — Melina Marchetta

Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. — Dana Gould

(by the way ... I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it ... ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.) — Charles Bukowski

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. — Erich Von Stroheim

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. — Rajneesh

For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood. — Zadie Smith

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. — Alex Rodriguez

Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was. — Lorrie Moore

Love has no past tense. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence. — Gerald Vizenor

Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense. — Mark Batterson

Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense — Elena Ferrante

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. — Rita Mae Brown

They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it. — Peter Watts

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. — Sarah Dessen

From August 25 to 28, I'm sharing the Amazon proceeds of all versions of Love Is Never Past Tense with Orphan World Relief — Janna Yeshanova

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore. — Ashley Newell

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. — Ken Kesey

Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense. — Auliq Ice

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. — Lex Martin

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;
While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Because love is never in the past tense. — Scott D. Brillon

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. — Casey Stengel

I really such a terrible mother?' she asked Bertie. 'Why the past tense?' Bertie said. Sow — Kate Atkinson