App Quote by Jake Barton

“We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial…

— Molly Haskell

There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.

— Adam Cohen

“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each one quietly…

— Janelle Gray

Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

— David Levithan

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you…

— Sophie Hannah

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer…

— Neil Gaiman

I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have…

— Kim Edwards

“Writing the forenames and family names of the victims down, with no other detail of age, or place, would fill twenty books. To begin…

— Philip Gourevitch

Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around…

— Anthony Lawlor

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and…

— Drew Gilpin Faust