"It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ..."

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"It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ..."

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Memory, Crows, Sound, Emotion

"Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That's how his mindfelt-like his missing memories were aching."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Memory, Truth, Life, Regret, Power

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Memory, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"What exactly did you find in Atlanta?Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. "Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs.Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. "How about you start from the top-of the story, not the backpack."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Memory, Humor, Truth, Wisdom, Today

"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

Memory, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"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

Memory, Love, Soul, Emotion

"Few things are more deceptive than memories."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Memory, Deception, Mind, Reflection

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Memory, Loss, Past, Imagination

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"Everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ..."

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"Your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over..."

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"I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ..."

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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."

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"You don't need a calling to minister love..."

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"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

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"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

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