He's being forgotten. When there's no one left in the living world who remembers you, you disappear from this world. We call it the Final Death. – Héctor0
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.0
The past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.0
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.0
He did not understand how the world had become so confused, and he spent his last years scratching out and tearing up all the papers he could lay his hands on.0
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons… and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, and in which Amaranta Úrsula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child.0
The only thing that came to her in her final years was a feverish nostalgia and the voracity of the forgotten.0
He was still too young to know that the memory of the heart eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.0
The sun was the same as it had been the day I'd buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin.0
And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for all the things he did. – Montag about Clarisse0
And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. – Granger0
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die.0
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. – The Elder Zosima0
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding.0
She forgot the hand-holding shadows of the sycamores, the smell of pine, the cartwheels of lightning, the rope of blood that shot up and rained down on her.0
The picture of the men coming to nurse her was as lifeless as the nerves in her back where the skin buckled like a washboard.0
She never mentioned the party, or the woman who knocked her down, or how she had choked. Nothing. As though it had never happened.0
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.0
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.0
You were just babies in the war — like the ones upstairs! ... But you're not going to write it that way, are you?0
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past.0
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.0
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou0
If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.0
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone. – Duke/Noah0