| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 339d768 | With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole. | meaning death life mementos ordinariness | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 5868731 | What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe. | memories making-your-mark mementos notice oblivion | William Faulkner |