“I liked the idea—that we left pieces of ourselves everywhere we went, coloring all our important places.”— Kirsten Hubbard, amazon.com
“Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It’s, like, part of you for good.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I still remember how it was before and I am holding back the tears no more. I love you.”— Paul McCartney, open.spotify.com
“Unfortunately one can never quite forget about them, especially during the night.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”— Azar Nafisi, amazon.com
“When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’”— Leonardo Dicaprio, peggy8_8.tripod.com
“He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never again happen in just this way no matter how long he lived.”— David Guterson, amazon.com
“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”— Joseph Heller, amazon.com
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”— Bernhard Schlink, amazon.com
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It’s simply a matter of is and is no longer.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”— Juan Gabriel Vásquez, amazon.com