Memories Quote by Hugh Howey

“I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet…

— Haruki Murakami

“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Till she seemed to swoon, gradually her mind went, and she passed away, everything in her was melted down and fluid, and she lay…

— DH Lawrence

“when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through this sudden…

— Donna Tartt

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

“During the day she carried her boy, bandaged and fed the wounded, leaving her own festering wounds until night-time when she licked them and…

— Paullina Simons

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons

“It was as if, after years of setting aside memories,the pile had grown too high, and had tumbled, obliging her to take an inventory…

— Loida Maritza Perez

“But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age:…

— Mervyn Peake

“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery,…

— Georges Bernanos

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon