5,121 Quotes About Memories
- Author Simone St. James
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Once she started, she couldn’t stop, the edges of her memories sawing at her as she sat at her lessons, as she did her homework and ran pitifully around the hockey field and ate her tasteless meals in the dining hall. The memories weren’t the overwhelming ones she’d had that had made her sick. These were like a violin bow grinding along the edge of a single string, shrill, waiting for some kind of resolution to make it stop. The only thing that worked was writing.
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- Author Walter Wangerin Jr.
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Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives. The womb remembers. The womb knows how to weep.
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- Author Pavan Desai
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showing off is always sweet when you have things worth showing off
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- Author Angel Martinez
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They are merely stars.”“You’re such a liar.”“Yes.”“I’d rather you told me it’s none of my business than have you fib to me.”“Fib?”“A small lie. One that doesn’t necessarily hurt anyone.”Finn chuckled. “Ah, they come in degrees and types now. I like that.
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- Author Sara Wolf
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For what it’s worth, my dear, life is very long, and memories are very short.
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- Author Patrick Chamoiseau
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Les vies n'ont pas de sens en fait, elles vont et viennent souvent comme des tsunamis, avec le même fracas, et elles drainent des débris qui croupissent dans ta tête comme autant de reliques, qui te semblent des trésors et ne tiennent pas la position.
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- Author Gaston Bachelard
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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.
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- Author Kate Morton
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A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood.
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- Author W.G. Sebald
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If you knew every crannyof my heartyou would yet be ignorantof the pain my happymemories bring
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