We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
Louise Glück
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
I know time heals, but I like the pain of missing somebody. It’s sharp and it’s cold and reminds me they were real. Sometimes I don’t want a person to just become another memory, a scar that healed with time. The pain helps keep them as something I have instead of something I had. I know time heals, but what if I don’t want to?
Lauren, (x)
Question of the Month (September)
If you could keep only one memory, what would it be?
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
Mitch Albom
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters