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“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” John Green, Paper Towns
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent...” George Eliot, Adam Bede
“no matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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