“But things in the past are like a plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Whenever falling rain droplets And the sound of the clock's ticking Fill the room I go back to that time I'd rather have this rain never stop So that I could live every day in my memories Because I'm a fool that hurt you And I don't even deserve to hold you in my arms ever again”— Heize, Shin Yong Jae, open.spotify.com
“In your eyes, just for a minute In your passing touch, stay for a minute In that short moment, everything stopped for you and me Those times shine for me”— Red Velvet, open.spotify.com
“This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak, I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences, not the outcomes.”— Kathryn Vance-Perez, amazon.com
“stay is a sensitive word. we wear who stayed and who left in our skin forever.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“If I read our story backwards, it’s about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, amazon.com
“Then there is the boy you can never stop thinking about. Whenever you see his name, it trips you up. Even if it's one that belongs to many others, even if he belongs to someone else. You know he is a symbol of your weakness, your Kryptonite. How he rushes in like wildfire and burns through everythin…”— Lang Leav, 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
“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“I loved [you] so much. Love [you] so much. I don’t know why I use the past tense. It’s not as if love dies with the beloved.”— Kate Atkinson, amazon.com
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”— Michael Faudet, 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, amazon.com
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine eve…”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com