Every step Quote by William Boyd

“I was on a lit path, a raging firestorm for him – all of him. My body ached for it. I had found the…

— Carlyle Labuschagne

“If we were scars, our memories would be the stitches holding us together. You couldn't cut them apart, and if you did, it would…

— Kai Meyer

“Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.”

— Kat Richardson

“Anticipating this loss had a way of refining memory, filing it down to the purest, rawest form of itself. My clouded perceptions grew clearer.…

— Wendy Paine Miller

“He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt,…

— Catherine Lacey

“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem.…

— Yoko Ogawa

“I remembered only the good and loveable things about him, not the wretchedness he caused me, and the dope, and the resentments and silence…

— Helen Garner

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

— Richard Flanagan

“I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of…

— Joseph Conrad

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments, only later do they make themselves known, from their scars.”

— Chris Marker

“Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.”

— Tara Janzen