At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. – Charles Caleb Colton