Quotes About Memories

Don't you think scars make better stories than tattoos?

I have found in most relationships with women it is best to remember their birthdays but forget their age.

Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As

I couldn't help but remember the one at my parents' place after they had passed. I'd gone through their things and hadn't kept much, but when it came time for the auction I'd had a strong impulse to bid on everything like some museum curator attempting to keep the collection whole.

Bring to mind your loved ones, they are the compass points in your existence, no matter where or when you are—they will guide you home, even if it is only their names.

The ship's head was directly behind these bunks, and one veteran recalled that the LSTs "stank of diesel oil, backed-up toilets, and vomit.

I forgot what it felt like to be young

There were dragons when I was a boy.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

Sin embargo recuerdo: una vez en mi juventud fui feliz compartiendo el único cigarrillo en un cuarto de pensión fui feliz haciendo el amor a la intemperie entre los juncos fui feliz sin hotel ni casa ni teléfono ni lencería de encaje. Tenía solo dieciocho años.

Alguien dijo que siempre partimos del lugar donde hubiéramos sido felices.

But some of us have moved away and they are the ones who miss this street the most. They will always belong here even when they think they no longer do.

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia

Too often, she looked forward to the end of something—to beginning the remembering—more than the thing itself.

Leo was reciting from the album covers: "Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul? This is like a bad MTV segment of 'Where Are They Now?'" "More like, guess who joined the Columbia House Record Club

Leo was reciting from the album covers: "Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul? This is like a bad MTV segment of 'Where Are They Now?'" "More like, guess who joined the Columbia House Record Club when she was

mum always ought to be, getting tea. Women and food: how they locked on to your heart, taking it so young that if you had ever been properly loved and nurtured, you could never quite untangle them again. And did you ever, ever get over losing your mum? It seemed absurd after so long, and at his age, to be seized with such a yearning to go home; but she was gone, beyond reach, and a grown man wasn't allowed to feel like this. The

Those weeks in Hamburg were among the happiest times John and I had together. We were free and in love, life was full of promise and the sun shone.

Once again John and I kissed good-bye.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.

Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful