He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better
It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.
She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.
He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.
