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be5faf8 When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. music remember songs Rob Sheffield
44a6307 Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. lose memories remember share tales Mitch Albom
d0f3aea Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are! alice-in-wonderland french humor lewis-carroll remember Lewis Carroll
640a893 Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory. hurts memory misery novels persistence remember requirements scars stephen-king stories talent writers Stephen King
da7c425 We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up. books burial generations grave history history-repeating-itself lonely remember war winning Ray Bradbury
217e0ae If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? jodi-picoult loss love memory plain-truth remember sad wish Jodi Picoult
4cf675d Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. last-words remember John Green
56f6ecc Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever? happens know life matter minute minutes moments remember think world-moves Jodi Picoult
d45497e "Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased. She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy. The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line. The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls. Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they're about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?" Schuyler mmm-hmmmed. And Leia leans over the ledge and says, 'I love you.'" That's cheesy, not romatic," Schuyler argued, although she did like that part. Let me explain. What's romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says 'I love you'?" Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. "Han says, 'I know.'" Exactly," Oliver tapped the wheel. "He doesn't have to say anything so trite as 'I love you." Because that's already understood. And that's romantic." i-love-you love remember romantic star-wars Melissa de la Cruz
967ff89 The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around. inspirational mourn pray remember John Green
3b9bcf2 I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself. bottle days drunk forget life remember remorse running Mitch Albom
fd121f8 Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. life remember secret Gregory Maguire
de0731d There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge. memories memory-loss ptsd remember remembering sadness trauma traumatic Katie McGarry
a2a2604 It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old. me remember sophie Sophie Kinsella
1215276 Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water. memory reality remember Sherwood Smith
e8788b5 I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight. inside love remember tonight F. Scott Fitzgerald
9908a4d What's broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live...I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. fiction remember Margaret Mitchell
86cc012 We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be remember white-cat Holly Black
5aa9eb4 "Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. "How long do I have to remember it?" Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father's laughter. He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. "Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go." journey remember Jhumpa Lahiri
6dbad0c Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you. love remember reunion sisters Gail Carson Levine
f9b0d8b It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know. i-don-t-know lives remember time wonder Markus Zusak
d72ed00 Your red dress,' she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now. dress fire red remember Jean Rhys
3a2c75e The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged. hurt moving-on past remember Jennifer L. Armentrout
eb8ea23 What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. remember Cormac McCarthy
124b1c3 I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost. grief loss love memory noir nostalgia photo-album photograph remember sad think Rebecca McNutt
bf9c725 My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down. city desperate howling i-wouldn-t-lie-down intensity loud remember sky something-to-offer throat visions voices Markus Zusak
3bdc5ee It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the cafe, your figure, your dress, that I still see. face figure longing love remember walked-away Franz Kafka
a7d1657 It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough. memoryes remember remembering time Richard Llewellyn
70180c6 We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves. ourselves part-of-me remember self steal take-away Beth Revis
2b29eae In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move. awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness Robin Hobb
00d67e6 . . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them. human love memory perish remember remembrance Denis Johnson
f8a91e2 She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic. dead depression family friendship grief lost melancholy mental-illness mourning professional reflection regret remember sad the-past Dennis Lehane
515f804 Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. honesty invite memories memory pain pains ponder remember reminiscence summon truth Robin Hobb
b7e28bc ...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have. distract empty fond fondness have miss remember reminiscence seek sigh sorrow want Robin Hobb
7b3d2a9 Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever. capture change fade fled flower history hold-on past preserve reality remember time write writing Robin Hobb
be67ef2 This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don't know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I'm sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything I've lived with, I have so many memories of all the things I've done here and I'm afraid if I leave, I might lose all my memories... cape-breton home leaving loss memory moving nostalgia nova-scotia remember scared scary travel Rebecca McNutt
a6c41c5 "Do you ever go back?" Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed." head-to remember Jodi Picoult
3ab8a61 Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. murder remember Elie Wiesel
06105dd Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there. remember saved James Baldwin
42adef0 If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive. popularity remember universal Madeleine L'Engle
afe6e57 "Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone," her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. "Where've you been, what've you been up to?" "Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?" Mandy asked. "No, what in the name of god are you on about?" her mom sighed in exasperation. "Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?" Mandy insisted. "No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all," said her mom all too quickly." call canada cape-breton conversation dysfunctional-families eighteen family friend friendship girl imaginary-companion imaginary-friend imaginary-playmate invisible invisible-friend mom mother nova-scotia phone pretend pretend-friend remember sydney-tar-ponds talk telephone Rebecca McNutt
4eccc79 Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live. remember trust weapon John Scalzi
243107b "Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth." culture eskimo remember Jean Craighead George
773b2e1 The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through. remember Laurie Halse Anderson
e7984f3 The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. forget hero madmen rare remember world James Baldwin
69fdbef "No, it is better not to risk a second interview. I shall always look back on this talk with you as one of the finest things in my life. Really. I mean this. We can never repeat. It has done me real good, and there we had better leave it." "That's rather a sad view of life, surely." "Things so often get spoiled." "I know," flashed Helen. "But people don't." e-m-forster howards-end never-again once-in-a-lifetime preservation remember sad spoiled E.M. Forster
bbddbed Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom. freedom illusive pride remember Francine Rivers
5ba3ad7 I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight for me, that my sword would be their sword. 'We're going to win,' I told my son. I felt as if Odin or Thor had touched me. I had never felt more alive and never felt more certain. I knew there would be no more mistakes and that this was no dream. I had come to Bebbanburg and Bebbanburg would be mine. bebbanburg best certainty fight frowning gods laughing me mine mistakes moment odin puzzlement remember son sudden swords thor touched were Bernard Cornwell
2f8a6cb I suppose if we forgot stuff we'll never know we forgot it, because we won't remember memories remember remembering Pete Hautman
c7c84a8 And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind. oblivion remember Beth Revis
ea67b8a I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me. gift parting present remember Mitch Albom
2c9c8d5 We are doomed to remember what never really happened. remember Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9030610 They were already out of her lands, and in another day Yorkshire would be behind them altogether. By the end of the week she'd be in London, resuming her life as if this trip had never happened. Three or four months from now, Harry, acting as her land steward, might write to ask if she wanted him to present his report on her lands in person. And she, having just returned from another soiree, might turn the letter over in her hand and muse, Harry Pye. Why, I once lay in his arms. I looked up into his illuminated face as he joined his flesh with mine, and I was alive. She might toss the letter on her desk and think, But that was so long ago now and in a different place. Perhaps it was only a dream. She might think that. George closed her eyes. Somehow she knew that there would never come a day when Harry Pye was not her first memory when she woke and her last thought as she drifted into sleep. She would remember him all the days of her life. Remember and regret. georgina harry loss love regret remember Elizabeth Hoyt
2f923e4 I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more. remember Robert Ludlum
a6432b3 .. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic. busy forget life remember taught work Mitch Albom
b697e3b I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind. call-to-mind closed-eyes conjuration examination eyes remember the-inside-of-skin too-dark China Miéville
9fcbed2 If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could. death dying ill memory remember share thought time Mitch Albom
6e069f2 It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read. legacy life-quotes memory remember writing-down Minette Walters