Memories Quotes - Page 38

• Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

  Jane Austen

  Perfect, Common, Perfect Happiness

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.205

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• And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Hands, Faces

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.133, Penguin

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• Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

  Kathi Appelt

  Loss, Someone You Love, Terrible

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• People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

  George Carlin

  Healing, People, Tragedy

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Sorrow, Wreaths

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.49, Editora Dracaena

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• I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inapproprite suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date. And, if memory serves, you did say you'd give me a fair chance once I let you clean out my trust fund." "I didn't clean it out," I scoffed.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Dating, Rose

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• Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared?

  Graham Swift

  Night, Years, Special

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• But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Winter, Fire, Hands

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• Memory... is an internal rumor.

  George Santayana

  Rumor, Internals

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• All good novelists have bad memories.

  Graham Greene

  Novelists, Bad Memories

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• Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Artist, Blue

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Writing

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• He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about.

  Jon McGregor

  Wall, Thinking, Dust

  Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

  Herman Melville

  Son, Past, Blue

  Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267

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• I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Mother, Loss

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

  Ann Brashares

  Promise, Good Memories, Made

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

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• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Passion, Sleep

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• Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

  Sandra Dallas

  People, Storytelling, Storyteller

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.28, Macmillan

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• We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

  Javier Marías

  May, Form, Affront

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• I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house. I would do that for you and no other man inthe relm. But it would be a lie and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Beautiful, Kings, Lying

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• Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

  Robert Jordan

  Agreement, Arrows, Made

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.410, Macmillan

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• When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

  Dan Brown

  Gray Matter, Brain, Chemical Reactions

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• A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos –like amber in which a memory gets trapped.

  Michael Chabon

  Believe, Feelings, Amber

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• It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Cities, Way, Behind You

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Jul 13, 2011

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