"Sadly, from where I stood, I was in what I now know to be a 'scarce language environment.'"

—Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, The Multilingual Mind

"I now know that the voice of man can reach to the sky."

—from a Squamish song

"Yes, many of them were what I now know to have been pit bulls."

—Lauren Thomas Griggs, On Being

"Only now do I realize how incredibly absurd and exciting this all is."

—Jen Minkman, The Island

"We now know that the soul (the mind, the will, the affections), is never in such good health as when the body is neither under-fed nor over-fed."

—Hugh O. Pentecost, 1889

"If I knew then what I now know I would have died of embarrassment."

—Pauline Smart, Love Crosses the Pond

"What I now know: there is no time like the present to take a look at who we think we are."

—Debra E. Talbert, Take Me to Your Leader

"It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me."

—Dylan Jones, 

"What I now know, I'm now held to a higher level by knowing it."

—Kevin Hull, Gaining Deeper Levels of the Anointing

"What I now know is that making decisions based on clouded emotions or other's opinions often are the wrong choices."

—Shirley Ann, What Mommy Needed to Know

"But what I now know is that my brave friend and some force beyond me provided the strength I needed to take a leap."

—CJenny Hartsell, "With Promises to Keep"

“I can't do it ... Not knowing what I now know from reading those books I never wanted to read.”

—M. G. Lord, "You'd Be Such a Good Mother, If Only You Weren't You"

"But none of it matters now, nor ever will again, knowing what I now know of the true nature of this world."

—John Joseph Adams, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"I felt for a few moments like she would spring up from the ground with a sharp 'Boo!' and it would all be over.  It would mean that my nightmare would never have started, and I'd be sleeping much more comfortably these days, unaware of what I now know."

—John Podgursky, The One Percenters

"I know regretfully that for me it is too late and there will never be a return to the bliss of ignorance. I didn't want to know as much as I've learned. I wish I could forget what I now know, but I can't."

—David L. Cole, Where's the Beef? The Mad Cow Disease Conspiracy

"What I now know to be true is that not everything that looks good on the outside is working well on the inside."

"Knowing what I now know, he left out some crucial information of the events of that morning."

—Darlene Bloome Mishek, My Doctor the Psychopath

"Whatever I may suffer, I think it a cheap purchase to know what I now know by this means."

—A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors From the Earliest Period to the Year 1783

"What I was about to learn ... was only the beginning of what I now know, and can only hope to continue to learn as long as spirits allow me the pleasure to communicate with them."

—Marco Santucci, Paranormal Noise: Listen Beyond the Silence