#memory

Hatred can't erase love memories. You need to focus on anything else. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hatred #love #memory #love

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ↗

— George William Curtis

#always #conversation #escapes #ghost #interview

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestral-memory #bloodlines #dna #familial-perspectives #family

When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#family

آه كم هي عنيدة الذاكرة وذاكرتي لا تتركني بسلام ، تملأ مخيلتي بصور ، بكلمات ، بألم وحب ↗

— Isabel Allende

#memory #novel #love

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon— ↗

— Ayn Rand

#idea #love #memory #unattainable #love

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#memory

Few things are more deceptive than memories. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#philosophy #truth #deception

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#history #humanity #memory #narrative #reality

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this. ↗

— Paul Auster

#writing #solitude