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"I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be."

"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"

"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories."

"Everyone is special; every moment in our life is unique. However difficult or painful a situation may look at present, it soon becomes a memory and a special journey. Memories make us who we are, but it also starts declining with age. There are many ways to preserve these special moments so that we can cherish a story that's our own."

"My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive."

"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."

"You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create."

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
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"She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them."

"Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent's garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof."

"In Miamas, fairy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only the very, very finest of them are exported. Most are only told once and then they fall flat on the ground, but the best and most beautiful of them rise from the lips of their tellers after the last words have been spoken, and then slowly hover off over the heads of the listeners, like small, shimmering paper lanterns."

"It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her."

"At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?"

"There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells."

"Just because you don't like peanut butter doesn't necessarily mean you can't like . . . peanuts."

"All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'."

"The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that."
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