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"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head."
"There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning."
"It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?"
"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich."
"Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten."
"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."
"I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost."
Explore more quotes by John Geddes
"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."
"Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ..."
"The heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ..."
"You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression..."
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