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“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale
― The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“Your memory feels like home to me.
So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it鈥檚 way back to you.”
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So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it鈥檚 way back to you.”
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“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too鈥攍eave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― The Blind Assassin
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― The Blind Assassin
“鈥he sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.
Some people might find that strange.
But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.”
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Some people might find that strange.
But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.”
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“You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them”
― Yesterday, I Cried
― Yesterday, I Cried
“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”
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And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”
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“If you鈥檙e searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words 鈥� you won鈥檛 find it.
You can learn every language and read every word ever written 鈥� but you鈥檒l never find what鈥檚 in your heart.
How can you?
He has it.”
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You can learn every language and read every word ever written 鈥� but you鈥檒l never find what鈥檚 in your heart.
How can you?
He has it.”
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“I had someone once who made every day mean something.
And now鈥�. I am lost鈥�.
And nothing means anything anymore.”
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And now鈥�. I am lost鈥�.
And nothing means anything anymore.”
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“If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.”
― City of Heavenly Fire
― City of Heavenly Fire
“Accomplishments don鈥檛 erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”
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“I miss that feeling of connection.
Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.”
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Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.”
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“The last time I felt alive 鈥� I was looking into your eyes.
Breathing your air鈥�. touching your skin鈥�
鈥� Saying goodbye鈥�.
The last time I felt alive鈥�. I was dying.”
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Breathing your air鈥�. touching your skin鈥�
鈥� Saying goodbye鈥�.
The last time I felt alive鈥�. I was dying.”
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“To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it鈥t鈥檚 over. It can hurt you no more.”
― The Single Woman鈥揕ife, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
― The Single Woman鈥揕ife, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.”
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“But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.”
― The Darkest Minds
― The Darkest Minds
“A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman鈥檚 reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn鈥檛 even realize it.”
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“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”
― Young Wives' Tales
― Young Wives' Tales
“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I鈥檇 ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”
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“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
“Every city is a ghost.
New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.”
― Lair of Dreams
New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.”
― Lair of Dreams
“I still remember that feeling of walking somewhere confidently, seeing him mid stride and putting my foot down just fine鈥� but feeling like I stumbled.”
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