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“But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.”
“Stains tell a story,” Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. “My car is full of random stains.”
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
“Maybe the problem with holding onto memories so tightly is that they don’t allow us to make room for the future. Maybe the gentle decay of the past is a blessing that dulls the sharp blade of regre...”
“We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are fragments which reconstruct a wholly illusory past. That first death we witness will always be a murm...”
“They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.”
“Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment,it lives forever, immortally fixed.”
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
“Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.”
“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
“We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think a...”
“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”
“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.”
“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
“Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.”
“There were some memories, though, that never faded.”
“Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No ...”
“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is perman...”
“memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they shifted, and [she] understood how the passage of time affected them. the hard working striver might re...”
“To see something marvellous with your own eyes - that’s wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you’ll both have tha...”
