Quotes About Reminiscence

When my thoughts go back, now, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of the histories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy over well-remembered facts!

Memory is more than a dustbin of time, stuffed with yesterday's trash. Rather, memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them.

If recollecting were forgetting Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot!...

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

She could feel the echo of lovemaking in her body in the same way she could feel the rock and shift of waves after a day of swimming, long after she left the water.

Okay. Thomas. What was he like before his childhood incident?" Mr. Atlasia paused and cast the line of his memory back, disturbing still waters. Jade watched his face to see if he told everything that was dredged up.

I hibernated in my past.

La memoria es una traductora simultánea que interpreta los recuerdos al azar o siguiendo un orden arbitrario: nadie puede manipular el recuerdo y quien crea que pueda es aquel que está más a merced del arbitrio de la memoria.

Tape record your parents' laughter

own. I am sure that is what the family remembered best about me because of the way the mother's letter began. "Dear Vet with the bandaged finger …

I'm not naughty. Its just nice to remember how from time to time.

When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.

I think of you so often you have no idea.

Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.

Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past.

Dear Hewitt Costello, Equerry, were daylighted with our outing and are looking backwards to our unearly summers

Praise for JAMES LEE BURKE "James Lee Burke is the reigning champ of nostalgia noir." —The New York Times Book Review "A gorgeous prose stylist." —Stephen King "James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed." —Michael Connelly "Burke's evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.

Jeb: I wish I could explain what I'd give just to see you smile again. Max (thinking): How about your head on a stick?

Memory is all I have now

Se Souvenir de Moi. Remember Me.

I wish I could explain what I'd give just to see you smile again." How about your head on a stick?

Nana Mama always said my aunt Connie had never met a stranger. My grandmother was right. All my memories of her were filled with smiles and infectious laughter.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.