Memory Quotes by John Green

“It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself”

— John Green

“I shall say you will die and none will remember you.”)”

— John Green

“Maybe we forget so that we can go on.”

— John Green

“Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.”

— John Green

“The town was paper, but the memory was not.”

— John Green

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

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The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

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Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing

— John Green

“Losing your co-remember meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had…

— John Green

“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”

— John Green

“His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded.”

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“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

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“It's a small reminder now that memory is not so much a camera as a filter. The particulates it holds on to…

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“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.”

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“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was…

— John Green

“Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow”

— John Green

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I…

— John Green

“someday no one will remember that she ever existed, i wrote in my notebook, and then, or that i did. because memories…

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“People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember…

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I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for…

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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing…

— John Green

“It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important…

— John Green

“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd…

— John Green

“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In…

— John Green

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I…

— John Green

“In the last weeks, we’d been reduced to spending our time together in recollection, but that was not nothing: The pleasure of…

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The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one…

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Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories…

— John Green

“It’s not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying…

— John Green

“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not…

— John Green

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it…

— John Green

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

— John Green

I can't remember, because I never knew.

— John Green

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting…”

— John Green

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

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Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me…

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“It sucked having a dead person in your family and I knew what he meant about seeking solace in the old light...because…

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And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as…

— John Green

“She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her…

— John Green