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“But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again.""Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten".There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way ...”
“To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.”
“Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm extended...”
“A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.”
“Time doesnt really march on. It tends to tip-toe. Theres no parade. No stomping of boots to alert you to its passing. One day, you turn around and it is gone.”
“We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.”
“Without the mellifluous notes of memory, there would be no songs to sing, no ballads dedicated to past afflictions or affections, and no church hymns celebrating the trials and tribulations of sain...”
“Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.”
“There can be no intellectual, spiritual, or emotional life without the substratum of memory. Without cognition and awareness of beauty and appreciation of our limited time on planet Earth, humankin...”
“Youre not the same. Youre not supposed to be the same. Youre supposed to be different. This isnt something you will ever forget.”
“We are so afraid of being pulled under the water with the anchor. Scared of letting these memories swirl around our mind as they should. As tragic as it might feel, its evident that the sea we are ...”
“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. Th...”
“He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.”
“Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.”
“There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.”
“He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long.”
“But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.”
“Memories are powerful that way. They can bring a person back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.”
“Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.”
“Stains tell a story, Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. My car is full of random stains.”
