Alley cats Quote by Charles de Lint

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

— Marina Oswald

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories…

— Neil Gaiman

“And then came months of memories connected to nothing and telling me nothing, and in this ambiguous atmosphere I stopped thinking of him as…

— Barbara Gowdy

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light,…

— Peter Matthiessen

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners like ghosts.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

— Cynthia Ozick

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,

— Robert Lowell

Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.

— Simone Berteaut

“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't…

— Jamie Kain