Quotes About Memories

Now we already lived in different buildings, and soon we would live even farther away from each other, and she would be married, and I would never wait for her in her bedroom again. How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other's rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries.

There was the golden age, the years our children were nine, ten, eleven. Fourth and fifth grade....of course you never realize it's the golden age until it's over.

be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

What am I going to do now? Then I realized this was the perfect time to start journaling again. Because if you don't write down what happens in a day, you forget—and that day becomes a blur and that blur becomes your life.

Even Meredith's attraction to Freddy had paled when compared to the real love of Meredith's life. The steady, unconditional, fortifying love of Meredith's father was gone forever.

and most especially the opportunity to hug our loved ones wherever we want, whenever we want. We honor the ones we have lost. What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude.

Even if Willa lives to be a hundred and is surrounded by children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she will still miss her mother. So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

Does he think about us? I wonder. Or does he have a vault in his brain where he locks us, and all the feelings he has for us, away?

You know what the happiest summer of my life was?" Kate asks. 'When you turned 13?' Jessie guesses. "I was 13 during the Great Depression, so no.

saying so regardless, for the kids' sake. Was it possible that Arch's spirit resided here, that his soul

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William Carlos Williams? "This Is Just to Say"—yes, Dabney had always loved that poem. In the years of Agnes's growing up, a copy of the poem had been taped to the refrigerator door. It was an apology poem—forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold. Box was holding out the plum and a bottle of chilled Perrier with a silly grin on his face. Celerie

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lighter now that it was summer. When he was a little boy, he always told her how pretty she was. Now

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What is the saddest day of the year? Labor Day or December 26th? One is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

didn't understand how lucky I was to have her until she was gone.

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halcyon days—the days when storms do not occur.

What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude. Cooper In the summer of 2023, Cooper Blessing is fifty-six years old, and when he gets down on one knee on the sidewalk in front of the Red Star Bar & Grill in Fells Point, he's momentarily concerned that he'll need help getting back up.

The end of summer was the saddest time of year.

You know how things like that sometimes happen, Kelley. Come on. That was the year you turned fifty. You were miserable, and so was Mitzi. You were at the Bar all night with your ex-wife, for God's sake.

be missing her. He had to be thinking

the summer of 1969, she will think: That was the summer I became real. My own real person.