Quotes of: Memories Keyword

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.

Dark Ride

Was it good to treasure the memory of a few perfect hours together? Or would I have been better off never meeting him?

Dirty Little Secret

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.

Darkness Left Undone

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.

The Edge of Always

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

So now books were her only friends. She'd read so often she could recite whole scenes by memory. It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Firefly Lane

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.

Fangirl

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

The Faraway Nearby

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don’t.

The Faraway Nearby

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose garden. My words echo thus, in your mind

Four Quartets

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

Firmin

...every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?...

A Familiar Rain

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

Frederica

Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.

The Fault in Our Stars

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

The Girl With Glass Feet

The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . . Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

Ghostwritten

[...] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.

The Good Psychologist

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

Here Come The Dogs

Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire