#memo

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#fox #fox-and-the-hound #goodbye #hound #memory

No furniture is so charming as books. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#furniture #memoir

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#memoir

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live? ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#memoir

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friends #pity #school #schoolmates #memoir

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#memoir

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to? ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#memoir

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August] ↗

— William Faulkner

#nostalgia #nostalgia

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#loneliness

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future. ↗

— Mary Warnock

#imagination