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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me hap...

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Bill WattersonIt's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' ...

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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...

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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Let me advise you, my dear young friend-- nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you...

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I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only ficti...

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Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spec...

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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It...

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I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return tick...

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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse th...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,list...

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There were some memories, though, that never faded.

Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding...

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There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable...

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Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long night...

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There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your min...

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Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memorie...

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Cassandra ClareThe Rise of the Hotel Dumort

By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It wou...

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Celeste NgEverything I Never Told You

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I beli...

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A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow,Its gloom and scarcity;Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow,Toi...

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Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jump...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by...

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Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing e...

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The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. ...

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Now, obviously, all old people seem cool whenever we see black-and-white images of their younger sel...

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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to ...

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You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

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Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drov...

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He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...

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He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...

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It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one...

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Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and ...

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I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the r...

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Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were pa...

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I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies,...

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But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards s...

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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the nee...

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I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

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He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and rega...

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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...

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Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without person...

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Diane AckermanAn Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growt...

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Diane AckermanAn Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space ...

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I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself...

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Nothing ever happens to me, " she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place...

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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, t...

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And I never started to plow in my lifeThat some one did not stop in the roadAnd take me away to a da...

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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they...

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Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to are the ones that hurt us the most.

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;Once drinking ...

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...filled her memory bank with shiny coins.

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Erica JongFear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it’s g...

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These memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow-- a vast, inapprehensible mela...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow...

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Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don...

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Franz KafkaThe Complete Stories

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, an...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible ...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ...

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new dayd...

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... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent wha...

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If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each...

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It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learn...

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All my memories are poisoned.

New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A...

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Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ...

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Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that ...

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Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needle...

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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain w...

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A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. S...

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You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after d...

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People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stea...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went th...

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We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burne...

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some...

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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we ...

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Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most importa...

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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I s...

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The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...

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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back an...

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Henry RollinsBlack Coffee Blues

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the ...

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She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They...

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