"MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!"

Memory, God, Desperation, Past

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"MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!"

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Memory, Crows, Sound, Emotion

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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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

Memory, Understanding, Self, Isolation, Past

"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

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"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

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"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie."

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"Oh, Mercedes, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercedes, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercedes, I must have my revenge!"

Revenge

"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."

Contentment

"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

Sympathy

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

Patience

"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."

Rest

"Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others."

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"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

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"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."

Education

"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."

Adventure