Quotes of: Memory Keyword

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

The Lighthouse

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Ligeia

If I'd learned anything, it was that the gods never had good news - especially when it was delivered by the resurrected corpse of your worst enemy.

The Lost Memory

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.

Linger

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

The Last Book in the Universe

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

Leaders' Watchwords

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Speak, Memory

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Shatter Me

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Speak, Memory

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

Seeing Redd

After the leave-taking, there is the leaving. And once you have left, you discover the ten thousand things that you still carry - memories of touch, scent and sight.

The Storyteller's Tale

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

Stay

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

The Shadow of the Wind

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Till We Have Faces

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

The Oathbound

Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her.

Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood

I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted.

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