Quotes About Memory

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his est. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

That evening, when Noa did not call her, she realized that she had not given him her home number in Yokohama. In the morning, Hansu phoned her. Noa had shot himself a few minutes after she'd left his office.

Her mother had shrunk.

There was always talk of Koreans going back home, but in a way, all of them had lost the home in their minds for good.

But I was born today, and isn't it funny how no one gets to remember that moment and who was there? It's all what's told to you.

Aunque había fracasado, ser madre era eterno; era una parte de su vida que no terminaría con su muerte.

all of them had lost the home in their minds for good.

There wasn't a day when she didn't think of her father or hear his voice in her head.

But I was born today, and isn't it funny how no ones gets to remember that moment and who was there? It's all what's told to you. You're here now. You are a mother to me.

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet, grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.

the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

7. Have one great cologne that's not from the drugstore. Just one. Wear very little of it, all the time. I cannot tell you how sexy it is to be enveloped in a hug by a man whose smell you remember. Then, anytime I smell that cologne, I think of you.

I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: "babies are born without kneecaps." What the hell was I supposed to do with that information?

It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Ara és l'hora de dir, ara és l'hora de recordar que el poble persisteix en tots nosaltres, en cada un de nosaltres, i que tot allò que hem fet i tot allò que hem desitjat és l'essència mateixa del poble indestructible.

Se'm desdibuixa per l'horitzó de pluja la teva imatge, però et mantinc ben viva als dits i a la memòria.

Tan estúpidament incoherents, els records s'amunteguen, es disputen el reduït espai de la memòria. Algun preval durant un temps molt breu damunt els altres, fugaçment s'imposa i és un llampec que il·lumina el desori.

ESCRIC DE TU Escric de tu i de mi per recordar-te. La tarda em pesa suaument als muscles i dibuixa l'espai en què et retrobo sense tenir-te. Tota l'esperança se'm fa desig intens a la mirada i l'ombra de tu pels marges solitaris. Escric de tu i de mi, des d'aquest angle de tarda que ens pertany perquè vam fer-ne l'àmbit fecund i clar dels nostres somnis.

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

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.