“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.” MindIdeasPastTurnsFantasyAliveShapesCreatingPointingLive In The Present Book:The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.” DifferentSchoolPastFantasyLandSourceColdEuropeTownsNostalgiaHillsClassicItalianSiteExileAcademyAbbey Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.” WayTryingYearsKindLongStillsDifferentPastTurnsForceFantasyForeverLong TimeIdealsTalesFairyJust OneNurseDifferent KindsFairy TaleHungPast Love Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?” IfsIdeasPastFictionFantasyScience FictionPhonesWhat IfTime Travel Author:Rainbow Rowell