“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”— Neil Gaiman, goodreads.com
“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”— Salvador Dalí, amazon.com
“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Stars should not be seen alone. That’s why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”— Nelson Mandela, amazon.com
“Most experiences are unsayable; they come to fullness in a realm that words do not inhabit.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for awhile they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”— Ruth Ozeki, amazon.com
“Nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they seemed.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“I still have scars, but they don't remind me of him. They remind me that I am here, without him, despite him.”— Disha, instagram.com
“When they come back, please, do not forget that they left in the first place. That they gave up. Do not forget the months you spent simply trying to get to the point of hoping again, to the point of growing your very heart from the mess they created within your ribcage.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com