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Sara Zarr Quotes about Memories

All Sara Zarr Quotes Character Memories quotes Rejection School Waiting Writing

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Memories, Fear, Thinking

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Memories, Love Is, Order

Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Memories, Remembrance, Done

Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.61, Hachette UK

I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.

Memories, Air, Want

This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.

Memories, Hands, Years

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

Song, Memories, Hate

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