#memo

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to ↗

— Jason Najum

#essay #memoir #pop-culture #movies

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#music #music

...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up. ↗

— Philip J. Hilts

#memory #personality #understanding-others #nature

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#story

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#right

I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you’re just the dream inside of a dream And don’t worry, I know I don’t know you, anymore. ↗

— pleasefindthis

#endings #forgetting #forgetting-the-past #love #memories

She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ... She understood me so well! My anxiety that the present 'immediately' turned into the past so that I could love it and dream about it at leisure was just like hers, was identical. It was 'our' vice, this: to go forwards with our heads forever turned back. ↗

— Giorgio Bassani

#nostalgia #dreams

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#past

Memory is the happiness of being alone. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#memory #alone

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#reality #violence