Quotes About Memory

Ett minne, bevarat i mitt hjärta som ett löv mellan sidorna i en bok.

Sometimes I don't think about her at all, and then...and then sometimes I'll have a thought like, I wonder what she would think of me now? She only knew me as a little girl, and now I'm a teenager, and I wonder, if she saw me on the street, would she recognize me?

I was thinking about her too. Even when she's not here, she's here. That girl has some kind of reach.

When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slips out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit. That's why can't save them up like that.

Let's take a selfie." "We can't; our phones are dead, remember? We'll just have to have the memory in our hearts like the old days.

I once had that exact same thought about Josh, and look at me now: It's like a million years have gone by and he's just a memory to me.

life. It all goes back to that one moment.

We drive in silence for a few minutes, and then, looking straight ahead, John says, "Did I even have a shot?" "I could fall in love with you so easily," I whisper. "I'm halfway there already." His Adam's apple bobs in his throat. "You're so perfect in my memory, and you're perfect now. It's like I dreamed you into being. Of all the boys, you're the one I would pick.

HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS, MEMORIES, HUMILIATION, DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.

Memories are microscopic. Tiny particles that swarm together and apart.

I felt a sudden chill and pulled the blanket over my head. That's the way they bring horses out of a fire, I remembered. If they can't see, they won't panic. I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer.

Before I was born, they had traveled around the world together, and sometimes it seemed that they went away again and forgot me.

At his old school, they taught him a song to remember all its phases. Sometimes he'll sing it for us at dinner, but only if we do not request it.

Sometimes on the subway platform I still sway, imagining her in my arms.

It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner. If the question is asked by someone you love, it is fair to assume that this person hopes to feature in this recollection he has called forth.

famously, Scots are very interested in their past, real or invented, but who else is?

As Long as we Keep telling stories about people we lost, they'll never go away. (from Bonus features 'Big Hero 6')

Sólo porque recuerdes algo no quiere decir que sea correcto. Es sólo cómo eliges recordarlo.

Ruth Kluger's Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered.

Although history is concerned with the past, it is conducted in the present.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

This one's for Aura. You all know who that is by now. The only girl I've ever loved. I wrote her a song, but she's the only one who's ever heard it, or ever will.

With my eyes closed and my memories open, I could almost feel his hands and mouth on my skin.

Somehow you always stayed quiet." He laid his hands beside each of mine, so that if he'd been solid, I would've been pinned between his body and the dresser. "Remember?