#memories

You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted to learn. And it's kind of like those animals that regrow a part of their body--like a starfish. You might not feel it. You might not even want to grow, but you will. You'll grow that part that broke off, and that growing, that blooming--cannot happen without the pain. ↗

— Kelle Hampton

#growth-process #life-changes #painful-memories #beauty

He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark. But he will take with him the canisters full of blasted images and have the pleasure of living them again. They are not nothing, the memories. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#nature #photographs #nature

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#memories #want

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#memories #pain #share #need

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#actions #acts #creation #dream #dreams

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#tears

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#memories #metaphor #pain #tears

The town was paper, but the memories were not. ↗

— John Green

#memory

Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#memory

What you remember saves you. ↗

— W.S. Merwin

#remembrance #salvation #salvation