10 Popular quotes from GoodReads
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver (5206 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami (4145 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea (2302 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo (1525 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1384 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire (1057 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson (1033 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle–it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act if self-preservation. It’s not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day (968 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl (913 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)
“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder (829 likes 4/25/2020; Goodreads)