“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”— Robert Guillaume, Rafiki, amazon.com
“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.”— Richard McGonagle, The Narrator, amazon.com
“The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other,…”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile…”— Ellen Burstyn, Sara Goldfarb, amazon.com
“Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Those moments have stayed with me forever, partly because of their simplicity, but also because they were revelatory. Nor were they ever quite repeated, and I can’t shake the thought that if I ever tried to replicate them, the original memories would slip through my fingers like sand, lessening the…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Talk about a memory. Can you recollect any sexy incidents that always turn both of you on? Perhaps, the time when you almost got caught, or the last time you gave him a road head?”— Morgan Miller, lovepanky.com
“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and…”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“i like to tell myself that i wasn’t really in love with you but even on the months i forget to pay my credit card bills, i still remember to check your horoscope.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“Sometimes I want to apologize for wanting you out loud, like too many people know the reasons I am going to have laugh lines.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“I still remember you as a little girl who overwaters plants because she doesn’t know when to stop giving.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com