Memory Quote by John Simmons

“She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an…

— Emily Maguire

“Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined…

— John Cheever

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These…

— Hugh Howey

“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the…

— Kristin Hannah

“Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

“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 felt dirty, ugly and tired. She felt like a marshmallow heading into a house fire armed with chocolate and graham crackers.”

— Benjamin R. Smith

“She was almond-buttery with sweat and sun, her face corrugated with a thousand caramel wrinkles and her hair flour dusted, but the rest of…

— Sue Monk Kid

“Eden hid her smile in my hand and leaned down and kissed me. I took her face in my hand, her velvety skin like…

— James Russell Lingerfelt

“Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like…

— Kai Meyer

“Bliss braided it's way through her, explosive and terrifying. Every pain she'd endured over the years disappeared from memory. Their mouths made seamless, perfect…

— Robin Bielman

“At her elbow was a slim pile of creamy white paper beside which she laid down her pen. It was only then, at the…

— Ian McEwan