Quote by John Williams

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai

“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time…

— David Baldacci

“He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and…

— Jodi Picoult

“He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an…

— Bernard Malamud

“He first felt old when there was no one left alive who remembered what he was like when he was a baby.”

— Barry Smolin

“Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.”

— John Updike

“He was already thirty, but yet to have a sense of himself as an adult. It just felt to him like he had spent…

— Haruki Murakami

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would…

— Andrei Platonov

“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.”

— James Hilton

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers