Memory Quotes

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Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had… — Truman Capote
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know… — Virginia Woolf
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie — Marguerite Yourcenar
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound… — Graham Greene
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to… — Oscar Wilde
Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a… — Julia Quinn
It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before.… — Maggie Stiefvater
Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it… — Allan Frewin Jones
There's a disconnect between my mind and my heart, but I feel the truth. They say when people lose their vision, their hearing comes sharper.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
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. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more… — Samael Aun Weor
Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep. — Kiersten White
He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality.… — Veronica Roth
Memory is not what the heart desires. — J.R.R. Tolkien
You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at… — Gena Showalter
Scent is the strongest tie to memory. — Maggie Stiefvater
Since Percyâ€™d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, heâ€™d… — Rick Riordan

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