Ann Brashares Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Firsts, Thread

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.114, Penguin

• It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Blessing, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.206, Random House

• Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

  Ann Brashares

  Hurt, Memories, Sky

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.74, Random House

• One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Promise, Good Memories

  Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

• Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Agony, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 29, 2013

• He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Fighting, Skills

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.210, Penguin

• Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Keys, Sometimes

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.172, Penguin

• But it was smell that carried memory.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Smell

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.81, Penguin

• A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.

  Ann Brashares

  Spiritual, Memories, Coffee

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Sep 26, 2011

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