“Once in a while will you dream Of the moments I shared with you Moments before we two Drifted apart?”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I’d never forget…”— Wilson Rawls, amazon.com
“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, tenari-ioapo.tumblr.com
“I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
“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 you…”— Sara Zarr, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.”— Sandra Cisneros, sandracisneros.com
“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, amazon.com
“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“We protected each other. I miss them at times. We had great love for each other.”— George Harrison, amazon.com
“You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“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, tenari-ioapo.tumblr.com
“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…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com