4 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson about memory
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But once, a cardinal alighted on the kitchen windowsill and he found himself squinting long after it had flown away again, trying hard to hold on to its beauty.
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I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.
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Maybe all over the world there were daughters who knew their mothers as young girls and old women, inside and out, deep. I wasn't one of them. Even when I was a baby, my memory of her is being only halfway here.
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Would the tragic comedy of memory ever stop replaying?
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