“Once upon a time we were young, our dreams hung like apples waiting to be picked and peeled.”— Shane Koyczan, blog.ted.com
“You still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could…”— Iain Thomas, barnesandnoble.com
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I see a lot of people As I make the rounds And I hear her name here and there As I go from town to town And I've never gotten used to it I've just learned to turn it off Either I'm too sensitive Or else I'm gettin' soft”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“A memory can be a marvelous getaway, but you must never make a home there.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”— Sarah Ruhl, amazon.com
“The spectacular truth is — and this is something that your DNA has known all along— the very atoms of your body — the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on — were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you…”— Gerald D. Waxman, amazon.com
“It is not our memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”— Marie Kondo, amazon.com
“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process 'filling the well.' Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our arti…”— Julia Cameron, amazon.com
“If only I can make this pain pretty, we tell ourselves, then it mattered.”— Heidi Priebe, amazon.com
“Missing someone, they say, is self-centered. I self-center you more than ever.”— Saša Stanišić, amazon.com
“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”— Carey Mulligan, m.imdb.com