Quotes of: Memoir Keyword

Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who had to keep their families together all alone, for the parents, spouses, sons, and daughters who were beset with worry, for M...

I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles

Take it from me, that kind of torment causes you to retreat to a place in your mind where you are so strong that nothing and no one can bother you. Or so you think! What you don't realize is that each time an incident occurs, you retreat inside of yo...

Journey Untold My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illness: Twisted Love - Yassin Hall's Memoir Living in the USVI with her Mentally ill Mother

I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I want to pull that thread? Do I want to unleash the truth, unravel deceit, and kill reality as I´ve known it? It is irreparable, if I do, fro...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the co...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t shoot when I should have. Ther...

Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

It's funny, this - so many words to describe the same thing,” she smiled...“Penis is simply an anatomical appendage, as exciting as a finger or a phalange. A willy is something small and flaccid, and at least slightly humorous. Prick is the organ...

Phoenyx: Flesh and Fire Erotic Memoirs of a Striptease Artist

On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." That is the mildest camp punishment. They tie a man's hands together behind his back, palms facing out and fingers pointing backward. Then they turn h...

Priestblock 25487 : a memoir of Dachau

Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was bad enough having to worry yourself sick every time your husband went up in an airplane; now, she was being told, s...

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most phy...

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

This one guy Roland was so weird that during sex his voice altered—as if he were a fucking alien—and he started talking like a baby in a bizarre high-pitched voice. He’d start screaming shit like, “I just want to fuck my baby! I’m your baby...

Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

The Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir

A troubled life beats having no life at all

Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Peace is a deeper reality than violence." p. 231

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer