“There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she’d barely given the memories of him a second’s worth of her time.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“They say death is hardest on the living. It’s tough to actually say goodbye. Sometimes it’s impossible. You never really stop feeling the loss. It’s what makes things so bitter sweet. We leave little bits of ourselves behind, little reminders. A lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets. Things to reme…”— Stacy McKee, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“I took her face in my hands and pulled her forehead against mine, and in that instant I felt our present and past selves in the room, the two of us in college choking back our emotions, a tsunami of love and longing and fear, as we slow-danced with our heads pressed together in a honky-tonk bar, pea…”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.com
“He had experiences as rich and memorable as any young man has ever enjoyed, and was moved by none of them.”— Bill Bryson, amazon.com
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.com
“When they come back, everything you had ever felt for them will come rushing into your bloodstream again. When they come back, you will breathe in their name like an old memory, it will rest softly on your lips like it had never left. When they come back, the laughter will be the same. The touch. Th…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Sometimes people just need to be reminded that they are in a relationship and sometimes have to do things for the other person that they wouldn't normally do. Don't make this a fight by saying things like, "Remember that time and that time and that time!" Just say, "You know, I do a lot of things fo…”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“Pictures? No, they lie. You’re not the picture. My dear, you’re not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You’re not these trunks of junk and dust. You’re only you, here, now—the present you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I'll never forget how he used to be But I'm better off living with memories I know that it's gonna hurt But I don't think it gets any worse”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about.”— J.R. Ward, amazon.com
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.”— Brian Ruckley, amazon.com
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as ne…”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com