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

Memory, Youth, Nostalgia, Sentiment

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"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."

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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

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"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Memory, Past, Time, Narrative

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

Dean Koontz, American Author

Memory, Love, Soul, Emotion

"He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Memory, Time, Life, Truth

"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number."

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Memory, Connection, Identity, Relationship

"There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Memory, Nostalgia, Longing, Happiness

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"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot."

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"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either."

Inspirational

"You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time."

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"Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that."

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"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."

"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."

"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead."

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

"He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended."

"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."

"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

"Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number."

"There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness."

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"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."

"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either."

"You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time."

"Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil...."

"Never trust he who trusts everyone."

"Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away."

"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."