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• How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.

  Dennis Lehane

  Smell, Asking, Want

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016

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• Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

  Joan Didion

  Wall, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Knopf

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• but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Pain, Real

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.16, Bantam

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• Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

  Madeline Miller

  Memories, Men, Hands

  Madeline Miller (2012). “The Song of Achilles”, p.347, A&C Black

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• Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

  Juan Rulfo

  Memories, Forever, Matter

  Juan Rulfo (1969). “Pedro Páramo : a Novel about Mexico”

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• Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

  Lionel Shriver

  Memories, Firsts, Normal

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.188, Counterpoint Press

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• Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lightning, Cracks, Steel

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin

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• As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

  Charles Baxter

  Couple, Real, Unhappy

  Charles Baxter (2000). “The Feast of Love”, Pantheon

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• Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every day, the characters begin to stale off in my mind – they begin to seem like characters instead of real people. The tale’s narrative cutting edge starts to rust and I begin to lose my hold on the story’s plot and pace. Worst of all, the excitement of spinning something new begins to fade. The work starts to feel like work, and for most writers that is the smooch of death.

  Stephen King

  Real, Writing, Character

  "22 lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer". www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2015.

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• He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she should have stopped thinking about him the second the door had closed. Should stop thinking about him immediately. Should never think about him again, except maybe as a client - and her prince. And yet, the memory of his fingers against her skin refused to fade.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Country, Memories

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• Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Desert, Disappear

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 02, 2014

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• I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Real, Reflection, Doors

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• I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

  Ken Kesey

  Memories, Sound, Fade Away

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.84, Hamilton Books

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• She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Autumn, Winter, Wind

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• ...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Blood, Agony, Different

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.

  Anna Godbersen

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Crazy, Odds

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• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

  Douglas MacArthur

  Confidence, Cheer, Giving Up

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• Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Light, Cities, Limits

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Magic never dies. It merely fades away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Dies, Fade Away

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• All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Myth, Turns, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Hurt, World

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• Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

  Jay McInerney

  Life, Book, Names

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.127, Vintage

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• I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?

  Erin Morgenstern

  People, Important, Together

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