14 quotes found
“Poisons are more my thing”
“Those who live in memories are never really dead.”
“As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.”
“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.”
“Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].”
“I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.”
“Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It i...”
“It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.”
“...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.”
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimp...”
“I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.”
“It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed t...”
“There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.”
“And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.”
