Mementos Quote by Joan Didion

“In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment…

— Joan Didion

“I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back…

— Joan Didion

In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost,…

— Joan Didion

“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on…

— William Faulkner

“It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were. Along with her manners, the accent she…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

— William Gaddis

Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

— Adam Garcia

“A silver hairbrush, old and surely precious, with a little leopard's head for London stamped near the bristles. A white dress, small and pretty,…

— Kate Morton

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my…

— Orhan Pamuk

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had…

— Orhan Pamuk