#memo

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live. ↗

— Rachele Baker

#cancer #courage #diary #hope #inspirational

Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger. ↗

— Claire Sylvia

#memoir #transplant #courage

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#dating

The event happened on my birthday. I don’t remember the date, I only know it was my birthday because there was no cake or presents.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cake #event #forget #memory #presents

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dating

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world. ↗

— Joan Lowery Nixon

#events #history #memories #people #change

He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#memories #past #dating

Memoria - fie memoria individuală, fie memoria colectivă care este cultura - are o dublă funcție. Una, într-adevăr, e să conserve anumite date, cealaltă să cufunde în uitare informațiile ce nu ne folosesc și care ne-ar putea încărca inutil mințile. ↗

— Jean-Claude Carrière

#memory #mind #dating

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off. ↗

— Kate Madison

#guys #memoir #pedestal #dating

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first. ↗

— Kate Madison

#dating #lesson-learned #memoir #dating