Quotes About Memories

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

That afternoon he invited me to his house for an after-school snack and showed me his collection of strange gadgets made from bits of scrap metal, which he kept in his room.

Forgive me,' he whispered. I held my father's gaze. Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering. I stood up and hugged him quietly. He held me tight and when he burst into tears the anger and the pain he'd buried in his soul all those years gushed out like blood. I knew then, without being able to explain clearly why, that slowly, inexorably, my father had begun to die.

spending more time with my friend Tomás Aguilar, whom I greatly missed.

Los malos recuerdos te persiguen sin necesidad de llevarlos contigo

And so, under cover of midnight, a couple of Sugus, and the spell of memories that were threatening to disappear in the mist of time, Fermin began to connect the threads that would weave the end and the beginning of our story....

Dumneavoastr? v-aÅŸ putea spune c? e inima, îns? ceea ce-l ucide e singur?tatea. Amintirile sunt mai rele decât gloanÈ›ele.

The memories we bury under mountains of silence are the ones that never stop haunting

Les hecha de menos? -¿A la familia? Fermín se encogió de hombros, varado en una sonrisa nostálgica. -¿Qué se yo? Pocas cosas engañan más que los recuerdos

When she died, I went to live with my uncle Gustavo

Criei-me entre livros,fazendo amigos invisíveis em páginas que se desfaziam em pó e cujo cheiro ainda conservo nas mãos.

Un giorno sentii dire a un cliente della libreria che poche cose impressionano un lettore quanto il primo libro capace di toccargli il cuore. L'eco di parole che crediamo dimenticate ci accompagna per tutta la vita ed erige nella nostra memoria un palazzo al quale - non importa quanti altri libri leggeremo, quante cose apprenderemo o dimenticheremo - prima o poi faremo ritorno.

I've never had friends like those again, and I don't imagine I ever will.

More or less everyone has lost someone, whatever side they belong to.

Siempre creí que íbamos a ser inseparables, per la vida debe de saber algo que nosotros no sabemos. No he vuelto a tener amigos como aquellos, y no creo que los vuelva a tener

Me juré que no volvería a verla, que no volvería a mencionar su nombre, o a recordar el tiempo que había perdido a su lado. Por alguna etraña razón, me sentí en paz.

Siempre creí que íbamos a ser inseparables, pero la vida debe de saber algo que nosotros no sabemos. No he vuelto a tener amigos como aquellos, y no creo que los vuelva a tener

The apartment was directly above the bookshop, a legacy from my grandfather that specialized in rare collectors' editions and secondhand books—an enchanted bazaar, which my father hoped would one day be mine. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Me juré que no volvería a verla, que no volvería a mencionar su nombre, o a recordar el tiempo que había perdido a su lado. Por alguna extraña razón, me sentí en paz.

The sight of bursting puberty is the best antidote to nostalgia, thought Alicia.

La vida pasa volando, especialmente la parte que vale la pena vivir.

there were no more ghosts there than those of absence and loss

Los recuerdos que uno entierra en el silencio son los que nunca dejan de perseguirlo

The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours…" "…except your dreams.