--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: I thought about my Willa, about her…" description: "\"“I thought about my Willa, about her blind-smiling at me from the hospital bed where she laid and where she died a few hours later, thought about the g..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg" --- # I thought about my Willa, about her blind-smiling at me… ![“I thought about my Willa, about her blind-smiling at me from the hospital bed where she laid and where she died a few hours later, thought about the girl my Willa was in the picture she’d shown me, smiling out from inside the old lady Willa on the night she died. I thought about that wild Willa…” quote by Robin Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg) > ““I thought about my Willa, about her blind-smiling at me from the hospital bed where she laid and where she died a few hours later, thought about the girl my Willa was in the picture she’d shown me, smiling out from inside the old lady Willa on the night she died. I thought about that wild Willa picture, and about the certain order she’d pulled that picture and others out of her hatbox to share with me on the summer nights when we were doing our secret sharing. And I thought about people saving certain pictures for a reason, saving and discarding according to the self-told story of themselves, how mainly it had nothing to do with who they were in the everyday, but instead, who they were in their special caught moments. How they held onto those pictures, and they held.”” [Robin Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-martin/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Memories of a loved one are preserved in cherished pictures, reflecting how we curate personal narratives. **In simple terms:** Pictures hold personal narratives. Key Takeaway Preserve meaningful memories. Themes memory loss storytelling Mood reflective emotional Type Old lady:0 Summer nights:1 Summer Night:1 Died Thought:0 Thought Willa:0 Willa Picture:1 Sharing Thought:0 Girl Willa:0 When to use this quote - Over‑curation can distort reality. Key Concepts grief counseling family gatherings personal archives Questions to Reflect On - nostalgic - somber A Different Perspective Which memories shape your identity?;How do you decide what to keep? ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Died Thought](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/died-thought-235553/) [Girl Willa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/girl-willa-3770935/) [Old lady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-lady/) [Sharing Thought](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sharing-thought-3770934/) [Summer Night](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/summer-night/) [Summer nights](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/summer-nights/) [Thought Willa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thought-willa-3770932/) [Willa Picture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/willa-picture-3770933/) ## Related quotes > [All I can think about is bed.” “We’re sharing the same thought.” “You’re thinking about bed too?” “I’m thinking about YOU in MY bed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/becca-fitzpatrick/all-i-can-think-about-is-bed-we-re-sharing-the-same-thought-you-re/) [Becca Fitzpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/becca-fitzpatrick/) > [Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-lyga/love-makes-you-weak-this-i-know-for-sure-mom-loved-roger-roger-loved/) [Barry Lyga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-lyga/) > [“They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the thing they were dying for. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalton-trumbo/they-died-crying-in-their-minds-like-little-babies-they-forgot-the-2/) [Dalton Trumbo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalton-trumbo/) > [“I thought it would be easier: I would cry and scream, and he would apologize, and it would never happen again. That part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yellowbella/i-thought-it-would-be-easier-i-would-cry-and-scream-and-he-would/) [YellowBella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yellowbella/) > [“Silence makes a buzzing sound when someone you love has died, she thought, like a fly in an empty room.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leia-meacham/silence-makes-a-buzzing-sound-when-someone-you-love-has-died-she/) [Leia Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leia-meacham/) > [“Time is too valuable, Beauty. I realized it when Nathalie died and I thought I had lost everything. We live in a countdown. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cristiane-serruya/time-is-too-valuable-beauty-i-realized-it-when-nathalie-died-and-i/) [Cristiane Serruya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cristiane-serruya/) > [“I will love you like no other for I have died a thousand tiny deaths and everytime I died I thought of you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-michael-linsner/i-will-love-you-like-no-other-for-i-have-died-a-thousand-tiny-deaths/) [Joseph Michael Linsner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-michael-linsner/) > [“He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he’d die himself, of the sorrow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-berg/he-tells-her-that-when-nola-first-died-he-thought-he-d-die-himself-of/) [Elizabeth Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-berg/) > [“If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalton-trumbo/if-the-thing-they-were-fighting-for-was-important-enough-to-die-for/) [Dalton Trumbo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalton-trumbo/) > [“I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keats/i-had-a-dove-and-the-sweet-dove-died-and-i-have-thought-it-died-of-2/) [Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keats/) > [I had seen my buddies crash and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always thought that was the way he wanted to go. John…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-walsh/i-had-seen-my-buddies-crash-and-burn-keith-moon-died-and-i-always/) [Joe Walsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-walsh/) > [“She remembered reading somewhere that even after people died, their hair and nails kept growing. Like starlight, traveling through the universe long after the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/she-remembered-reading-somewhere-that-even-after-people-died-their/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“I would have, Damien! I would have! I would have rather died a thousand painful, torturous deaths than watch you die one! I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-hammond/i-would-have-damien-i-would-have-i-would-have-rather-died-a-thousand/) [Lauren Hammond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-hammond/) > [It's so weird. The day my father died. I thought it'd be all grim and stormy. It's just another day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tyler/it-s-so-weird-the-day-my-father-died-i-thought-it-d-be-all-grim-and/) [Rose Tyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tyler/) > [A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/a-ship-s-engine-far-away-on-the-water-expands-the-summer-night/) [Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/) ## More by Robin Martin > [“For a while, they put up with having their breasts felt of, but they get impatient because they don’t really like it, the feeling-up,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-martin/for-a-while-they-put-up-with-having-their-breasts-felt-of-but-they/) [Robin Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-martin/) [Explore all 2 Robin Martin quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-martin/) ## More Old lady quotes > [“Is that enough info for you?" His old lady? I thought that was just talk you saw in the movies. Maverick brings his lips…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justine-elvira/is-that-enough-info-for-you-his-old-lady-i-thought-that-was-just-talk/) [Justine Elvira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justine-elvira/) > [“Some bikers have a code about who they put on the backs of their bikes and when. Rally, party, road trip, could be whoever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-ashley/some-bikers-have-a-code-about-who-they-put-on-the-backs-of-their/) [Kristen Ashley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-ashley/) > [Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-jones/old-ladies-in-wheelchairs-with-blankets-over-their-legs-i-don-t-think/) [Milton Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-jones/) > [I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/che-guevara/i-am-not-christ-or-a-philanthropist-old-lady-i-am-all-the-contrary-of/) [Che Guevara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/che-guevara/) > [“Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilona-andrews/slowly-the-reality-of-the-situation-sank-in-he-got-his-ass-kicked/) [Ilona Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilona-andrews/) > [“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/but-the-old-lady-on-the-contrary-far-from-justifying-her-daughter-s/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/she-my-mother-could-still-recite-them-the-poems-in-full-when-she-was/) [Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/) > [“A crazy old lady, leading a band of teenagers against an angry supernatural Entity - who’da thought?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-m-haynes/a-crazy-old-lady-leading-a-band-of-teenagers-against-an-angry/) [Diane M. Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-m-haynes/) > [I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-learned-to-drive-when-i-was-35-i-m-driving-like-an-old-lady-and/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-a-gill/if-new-york-is-a-wise-guy-paris-a-coquette-rome-a-gigolo-and-berlin-a/) [A. A. Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-a-gill/) > [She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-graves/she-told-me-that-all-the-girls-in-annezin-prayed-every-night-for-the/) [Robert Graves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-graves/) > [You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-can-t-just-boss-bacteria-around-like-that-said-the-younger-mrs/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooke-astor/if-i-go-up-to-harlem-or-down-to-sixth-street-and-i-m-not-dressed-up/) [Brooke Astor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooke-astor/) > [Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-tchelistcheff/appreciating-old-wine-is-like-making-love-to-a-very-old-lady-it-is/) [Andre Tchelistcheff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-tchelistcheff/) > [“It wasna a man,’ said Andrew Kerr broadly. ‘T’was my aunty. I tellt ye. I’m no risking cauld steel in ma wame for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-dunnett/it-wasna-a-man-said-andrew-kerr-broadly-t-was-my-aunty-i-tellt-ye-i-m/) [Dorothy Dunnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-dunnett/) [Browse all 447 Old lady quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-lady/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I thought about my Willa, about her blind-smiling at me from the hospital bed where she laid and where she died a few hours later, thought about the girl my Willa was in the picture she’d shown me, smiling out from inside the old lady Willa on the night she died. I thought about that wild Willa picture, and about the certain order she’d pulled that picture and others out of her hatbox to share with me on the summer nights when we were doing our secret sharing. And I thought about people saving certain pictures for a reason, saving and discarding according to the self-told story of themselves, how mainly it had nothing to do with who they were in the everyday, but instead, who they were in their special caught moments. How they held onto those pictures, and they held.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robin Martin" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-martin/i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind-smiling-at-me-from-the/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Old lady" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-martin/i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind-smiling-at-me-from-the/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/robin-martin-101160_old-lady_i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind_426629.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I thought about my Willa, about her blind-smiling at me from the hospital bed where she laid and where she…” — Robin Martin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Robin Martin", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-martin/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "“I thought about my Willa, about...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-martin/i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind-smiling-at-me-from-the/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-martin/i-thought-about-my-willa-about-her-blind-smiling-at-me-from-the/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```