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Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. You can change things. You can make things better.

— The Giver (Jeff Bridges), The Giver

Memories Future Change

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Padme: We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island every day. I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.

Anakin: I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.

— Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Memories Sun Sand smooth Water Birds

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This place, Paradigm City, is a town of forgetfulness. One day, forty years ago, every person here lost all memory of anything which had occurred before that day. But humans are adaptable creatures. They make do and go on with life. If they're smart enough to figure out how to operate machinery and get electricity, they can still have something of a civilization even without a history. People can survive without knowing what did or didn't happen in the past, and each day they try their hardest to do just that. The only ones who regret the loss of these memories are the city's elderly. But memories, like nightmares, sometimes come when you least expect them.

— Roger Smith (voice) (Steve Blum), The Big O, Season 1: Roger the Negotiator

Memories Survival

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Ned: Phil? Hey, Phil? Phil! Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!

Phil: Hi, how you doing? Thanks for watching. [Starts to walk away]

Ned: Hey, hey! Now, don't you tell me you don't remember me because I sure as heckfire remember you.

Phil: Not a chance.

Ned: Ned... Ryerson. 'Needlenose Ned'? 'Ned the Head'? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. Ned Ryerson: I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson: got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson: I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple times until you told me not to anymore? Well?

Phil: Ned Ryerson?

Ned: Bing!

Phil: Bing.

— Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day

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Cole Sear: [of his grandmother] She wanted me to tell you...

Lynn Sear: Cole, please stop...

Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... 'Every day.' What did you ask?

Lynn Sear: Do... Do I make her proud?

— Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), The Sixth Sense

Dancing Memories Childhood

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Joy: Hey! You can’t throw those away! Those are perfectly good memories.

Mind Worker #2: The names of every Cutiepie Princess doll?

Joy: Yes. That is critical information. Glitter storm, Honey pants…

— Joy (voice) (Amy Poehler), Inside Out

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All the best memories are hers.

— K (Ryan Gosling), Blade Runner 2049

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I take comfort in the past. I draw my memories around me like a warm blanket. But I also rehash and replay, question decisions, can’t get over anything, rebel against the passage of time.

— Meghan Nesmith, Can Nostalgia Ever Be Good For You? I Asked a Therapist

Memories Nostalgia

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Memories surface through the grapevine.

— XXXTENTACION, Jocelyn Flores (17)

Memories Surface grapevine

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Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.

— Green Day, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Nimrod)

Tattoos Memories dead skin Trial

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I testify like a lullaby of memories.

— Green Day, Bang Bang (Sweet Talker (Deluxe Version)

Testify lullaby Memories Simile Examples

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Feelings aren’t like memories. You can’t just pull them out of a file.

— Jane Doe (Jaimie Alexander), Blindspot, Season 2: Devil Never Even Lived

Feelings Memories Metaphor Examples

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It feels like you’re waiting for me to remember something that is never going to come.

— Jane Doe (Jaimie Alexander), Blindspot, Season 1: Split the Law

Waiting For Something remember Memories

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Nothing is without effort. You know that, Rudolph. There are those with short memories who seek to drag us all backward.

— John Smith (Rufus Sewell), The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys

Memories Bringing Us Down Effort

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Is a dog man's best friend? I had a dog. The dog was large. It ate my garden, all the plants, and much earth. The dog ate so much earth it died. Its body went back to the earth. I have a memory of this dog. The memory is all that I have left of my dog. He was black — and white.

— Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson), Twin Peaks, Season 2: The Black Widow

Dog Is A Man's Best Friend plants Memories

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It's the opposite. We need to forget. Fade the bad, perfect the good. But my memories, the good and the bad - every one is crystal clear, and we're not built for that emotionally.

— Leo Elster (Colin Morgan), Humans, Series 1: Episode 7

Opposite forget Bad Good Memories emotions

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Memories are like salt: the right amount brings out the flavor in food, too much ruins it.

— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com

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Take lots of pictures. Not of sights. Don't take pictures of buildings. Take pictures of moments, because that's what matters.

— Shawn Spencer (James Roday), Psych, Season 5: One, Maybe Two, Ways Out

Photos Sights Moments Memories travel

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But things in the past are like a plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Life Memories Past Past Memories

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In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Time time passes flow of time you can't go back time continues time flows time is passing Memories Past

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Acting young ain't what keeps you young, but if you have some memories—some good memories—of when you were young, that's what keeps you young.

— Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason), The Honeymooners, Season 1: Lunchbox

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Ralph: Just remember, you can't put you arms around a memory.

Alice: I can't even put my arms around you.

— Alice Kramden (Audrey Meadows), The Honeymooners, Season 1: Pickles

Fat-Shaming Memories

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Going back is more difficult than going forward, I discover.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Life Going Forward Looking Back Moving Forward Memories Past present Past Present Future

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Good things never grow old, do they?

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Things Good Things Memories old things precious things Life

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I lost both my virginities in this house, it's my house.

— Brianna Hanson (June Diane Raphael), Grace and Frankie, Season 1: The Dinner

Virginity Lost My Virginity My House Memories Possession

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But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Memories unforgettable memories painful memories memories that can't be forgotten Life life's memories

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My heart kept beat with the slowly moaning drum. The hum of words unsaid. Breathless.

— Courtney Long, Lies My Sister Told Me Or How I Survived My First Wall of Death

Music Metal Memories Nostalgia

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Maybe, if we’re gonna remember Bourdain for one thing, it’s that open-hearted curiosity and humility, a willingness to be a perpetual student of the world, committed to using his platform to reveal the complexity and beauty of the human experience, one bite at a time.

— Cooper Fleishman, Everyone Seems to Have a Phenomenal Anthony Bourdain Story

Anthony Bourdain Memories Memory Empathy Nostaglia Loss Grief

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my very first memory involves watching her plant roses in a garden
and i’ve written too many poems to call this anything other than symbolic.

— Caitlin Conlon, My Mother Taught Me To Wear Memories Like A Shadow

Poetry Nostalgia Memories poem

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Hello, Stranger
you haunt my moonlit Odyssey
I wish I could call you by name.

— Leigh Cuen, Siren

Poetry Haunted Memories

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Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here.

— Willie Nelson, It's a Long Story: My Life

Memories tragic strength Survival Overcoming

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I always remember the games in which I score.

— Pele, Pele: My five-minute interview with Brazilian great

Memories scoring

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To truly love, to truly forgive and to hold no record of the past is very hard.

— Letitia Wright, via twitter.com

Memories Past forgiveness

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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

— Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

Memories Memory Dulls Physical Passion There Is A First For Everything If You Could Experience Your Firsts All Over Again

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They can say stay away, come closer, take off all my clothes, dance with me. Love me. Love me. Love me.

— Tynan Sinks, Why Fragrance Is The Purest Form of Beauty

Love Memories Fragrance

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I tell my students that life’s biggest moments — car accidents, graduations, even deaths — may not be the best fodder for their writing. I tell them the most significant moments happen on a random Tuesday.

— Kathleen Volk Miller, A Future Without Him, Aided by Duct Tape

Grief Writing Moments Memories Quote of the Moment

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The best part is - I don't forget people.
The sad part is - I can't forget people.

— Yashi, via www.instagram.com

Forgetting Memories H4D-55

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Die with memories, not dreams.

— Norm Kelly, via twitter.com

Memories Dreams

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I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

— Mike Epps, via www.successories.com

Childhood Memories tv show Memories inspiration Respect

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He says my name and I'm seventeen.

— Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls: A Novel

Memories Love Teens Nostalgia

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People are defined by their people. They are defined by their pleasure. They are defined by their memories. That’s about it. All the rest is, well, stuff.

— Courtney E. Martin, The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

Identity Definitions of Self Pleasure Memories Material Things

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What kind of memories are you left with?
Was I really that indifferent towards you?
I want to ask you, I want to know
Am I really the only one left with good memories?

— Kim Jonghyun, 미안해 (I’m Sorry) (JONGHYUN The Collection "Story Op.1")

Love breakup separation parting Relationship Ending Memories Memories From Past Love

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With time, even the white petals will wither
Without remembering that they were once transparent

Ah the sadness scatters it
Ah the tears drench it

— Kim Jonghyun, 산하엽 (Diphylleia Grayi) (JONGHYUN The Collection "Story Op.1")

Love Relationship parting Pain Sadness Melancholy Memories

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I think he had the best eye, best stance and sharpest cut of all the big leaguers playing in Puerto Rico. He also field real good and throw like a bullet.

— Roberto Clemente, Recalling his boyhood idol Monte Irvin

Idol Memories Reminisce baseball

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I was as curious as the devil. Couldn't have been older than sixteen months when I started wandering out of the house by myself. I was a handful. Had to be kept on a short leash.

— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story

Memory Memories Childhood Childhood Memories Child Children young Explore curious outside handful devil

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Cozie could be cold-blooded. Even though my name, "Jamesetta," was formed from "James" (her husband) and "Cozetta," she didn't want to adopt me. She thought I'd hurt her business.

— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story

cold-blooded name adopt Adoption Child Children Childhood Memories Childhood Memories Family Parents Love

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Our happiest times were at the bottom of the ladder. One day he dragged us out of private schools, and the next day we started peddling cakes out of the back of a truck.

— Telly Savalas, Of his late father, Nick Savalas

Memories Reminiscing Struggle

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In your eyes, just for a minute
In your passing touch, stay for a minute
In that short moment, everything stopped for you and me
Those times shine for me

— Red Velvet, One of These Nights

Love Relationships Looking Back Past Memories looking back on memories Memories breakup

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Feelings change, memories don’t.

— Joel Alexander, A quote by Joel Alexander

Memories Nostalgia Feelings Romantic Feelings

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I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, and words can never substitute action

— Paulo Coelho, via Twitter

Farewells Memories Words actions human relationship Human Connection Life

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Once in a while will you dream
Of the moments I shared with you
Moments before we two
Drifted apart?

— John Coltrane, Once In A While (The Complete Mainstream 1958 Sessions)

Dream Moments Memories Longing Drifting Apart

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Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (A Darkest Minds Novel)

Remembering someone Love Memories

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There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark... Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

— Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

Memories Exceptional Love Unforgettable

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I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.

— Cynthia Hand, Boundless

Love No Regrets Looking Back Memories Desire Happiness

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You are still a mark in the distance I can use to find my way. When your ghost comes around he is still comforting, familiar, fleeting. When your memory finds me, you still feel like home.

— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords

Lost Love your ghost Memories

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I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.

— J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Lovers Memories Past Memories Love secretly loving Loving Someone

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And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.

— John Berger, A quote by John Berger

Memories Sweet Message Missing A Lover Lover comfortable senses

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Isn't it crazy that even the smallest things could remind you of something or someone. You feel both a mixture of joy and pain, people and things may be temporary but the memories remain.

— Tenari Ioapo, via Tumblr

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Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.

— Steve Maraboli, via Twitter

Remembering someone Memories Reality

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I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever, your leg my leg, your arm my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.

— Charles Bukowski, Raw With Love

Memories romance Love sweet moments

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A memory might not leave you alone the way you want it to, but it can’t hurt you. It’s mortal the way we are, it dies when you neglect it.

— Chrissy Stockton, We Are All Just A Collection Of Cords

Memories memories can't hurt you Forget the past

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The hardest bit about losing people you loved wasn’t thinking about the memories you had, the ones that had already been made. No. The hardest bit was the stuff that should have been, but had now been denied.

— Matt Haig, Echo Boy

Missing Someone Love Pain lost Memories

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Know that I loved you. Know that it was not enough.

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

Love Love is not enough Past Love Memories

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I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.

— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls

photographs Memories Past Looking Back

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I remember when
your eyes
said love
loudly

— Charles Bukowski, War All The Time (The Miracle is the Shortest Time)

Memories Love Reminiscing Missing Someone Relationship Past Love

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I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

— Henri Barbusse, The Inferno

Memories Memories From Past Love Reminiscing Heartbreak Failed Relationship

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…but that’s exactly what happens
when someone leaves.
They become like ghosts,
because sometimes you can’t see them
but you could still feel them
once they are gone.

— R. M. Drake, A quote by R.M. Drake

Missing Someone When Someone Leaves Sad Loneliness Nostalgia Memories

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There are songs that still feel like your teeth on my neck.

— Clementine Von Radics, A quote by Clementine von Radics

Song Lyrics Nostalgia Memories

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I remember thinking I'll go on forever only knowing I'll see you again, but I know the touch of you is so hard to remember, but like that touch I know no other.

— Dave Matthews, I'll Back You Up

Remembering Memories Love Longing Distance

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I think it is all a matter of love: the
more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov's interview. (02) BBC Television [1962]

Love Loving loving a memory Memories Experience Life

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Memories of you are sometimes almost overpowering.

— Vincent Van Gogh, Letter to Theo Van Gogh,’ 3 Oct. 1876.

Memories Remembering someone Missing Someone Past

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I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?

— Sholem Aleichem, A quote by Sholem Aleichem

Forgetting Living Past Memories

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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don’t make memories like that anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)

Love Feelings admiration Weakness Memories

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But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Memories Past Remembering

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My memories have turned into anxieties.

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Anxiety Memories

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King, Joyland

Past Past Days Memories telling stories about the past History fiction

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One can never rely on the great keeping one's letters; and should those letters vanish, one is apt to be remembered only as the mysterious half of a dialogue to be reconstructed in the vaguest way from the surviving (and sometimes lesser!) half of the exchange.

— Gore Vidal, Julian

Letters Writing Memories

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He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life.

— Ian McEwan, Atonement: A Novel

Familiarity Roads Same Page recall Memories Living Life same cycle

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That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.

— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

History Past Past Pain history's pain Memories

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It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

— Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

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It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

History Past Memories Past Memories part of yourself History as the Structure of the Present

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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I’ve ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

— Macaulay Culkin, Macaulay Culkin Quotes & Sayings

Thoughts Memories Deep

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Past Memories Past Days humor

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The past can’t be changed, can it? But it can just be forgiven.

— Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

Past Regrets Past Memories Memories forgiving the past

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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Forgetting Remembering Memories forgetting and remembering Pain Past

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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Memories Past Valuable

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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.

— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898

Childhood Memories Innocence Imagination play Believe

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I want a new past, new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies: A Novel (The Warm Bodies Series)

New Beginning Desire Memories Past Love Starting New

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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

— Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop's Trail of Destruction

Memory Memories Memories in the Past Past Pain Past Days Past Experience Life

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It got dark, the sea carried him rocking on its nocturnal surface. Memories passed through him, like streaks of mist over the water.

— Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory.

— Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

Fragrance Memories Nostalgia Smell

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I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

Loneliness Pain Sadness Memories Looking Back Remembering the past

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It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

— Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream

solitary Memories Alone

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Some nights I wish I could go back in life
Not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice

— Drake, 6PM in New York

Past Memories Nostalgia Life

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When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

— Oliver Sacks, Opinion | Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer

Death Memories Legacy Missing Someone Fate unique

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But that is past and should remain deep in the past.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)

Past Memories Experiences

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Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.

— Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire)

Memories dangerous Past Experiences

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