Quotes About Memories

Truly love is the strongest intoxicant of them all, the drink of deepest oblivion. Else how could I have forgiven him so quickly for what he'd done? No. Love is the spade with which we bury, deep inside our being, the things that we cannot bear to remember, cannot bear anyone else to know. But some of them remain. And they rise to the surface when we least expect them.

We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.

So many photos, so carefully preserved. How absurdly central I'd been to my mother's life.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

We left in the same kind of truck that had brought us to the camp ten years earlier. When it started up, I was taken back to our departure from Pyongyang, and to my mother's tear-lined face as it receded into the distance. The vision struck me with new and unexpected force - for I had all but forgotten my mother.

I woke with the taste of your apple pie in my mouth, carried over no doubt from my dreams. It made me realize how much I miss you and our home.

The wind is calling in a voice I remember.

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

You live long enough, every day is the anniversary of some thing.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

IT'S HARD TO FORGET SOMEONE WHO GAVE YOU SO MUCH TO REMEMBER

I have a box at school, Storm, filled with photos of friends and famiy. They have one thing in common. They're all dead. How long 'til add your name to the list, huh? What am I suppposed to do, keep on going 'til there's no one left I love?

On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

Tom wouldn't want us to be sad. I took crocuses to his grave this morning. I arranged them as best I could, and then I came home.....One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to. In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.

Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.' 'I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.' 'Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?' 'Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.' 'Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.

Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

did not cry when they killed my sister but I did cry when I heard the music coming out of the soldiers' truck because I was thinking, That is my sister's favorite song and she will never hear it again.

SIXTEEN YEARS AGO IN HISTORY

Everyone in this house has been shocked by Henry's death,

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

including a bag of Pirate's Booty cheese puffs, which made the three friends laugh.