Memory Quote by Ann Lee

“And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away.…

— Nicole Mones

“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young”

— Gordon G. Chang

“But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams.”

— Heinrich Heine

“The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

“And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished, and the…

— Thomas Wolfe

“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of…

— Marge Piercy

“She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much…

— Laura Moriarty

“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would…

— Anonymous

“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story…

— Edna O'Brien