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“To see something marvellous with your own eyes - thats wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that youll both have that ...”
“My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being sna...”
“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothin...”
“Memories fall like snowflakes upon my dreams. The snowflakes toss and tumble, each different and yet the same.”
“Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”
“She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction wit...”
“Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?""Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I...”
“For me, Mama's cabinet had been full of mysteries and secrets to be puzzled out, like an adventure. For them it had been full of memories. And I had broken all of them.”
“We dont even survive in the memories of the living. Science has destroyed that myth. Whenever we remember something, what were doing is remembering the last time we remembered it; our memory doesnt...”
“Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.”
“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the...”
“We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idi...”
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up. Like when you memori...”
“Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.”
“Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.”
“You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.”
“Most uncomfortable situations brings at times most precious memories....”
“They're all true. They all could have happened.”
“We walked into the arena together with him reaching out his arm and wrapping it around my waist. He pulled me into him, smelling the aroma around him. The scent was familiar like I was with him bef...”
“Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morni...”
