There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her.
It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remember
The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.
He could swear he did not look back, could not—by any optical chance, or in any prism—have seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadful distinction, he retained forever a composite pi...
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death,...
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see...
That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...
There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.
Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than experience itself.
It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.