Garments Quote by Mary Antin

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They…

— Louise Bourgeois

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

— Iris DeMent

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my…

— Jennifer Weiner

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever.…

— Julie Gregory

It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the…

— Camilla Gibb

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and…

— Mary Antin

“Feel how tight my arms are around you?" he said. "This is how tight I'll be holding you. No matter where you go, or…

— Alison McGheecg

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…

— Derek Walcott

“Sometimes, you feel yourself weightless, thinned. You draw back the curtains (if there are any) on a rectangle of wasteland at dawn, and realise…

— Colin Thubron

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough…

— Bret Anthony Johnston

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron