The Memory Collectors Quotes

“We think all we are is what we see on the surface. But there’s always more.”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“Sometimes fate steps in to steal things from you. And sometimes it sweeps in to take you places you only dreamed of going.”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“We all think we know what other people should do. But I see now that each of us is going on roads only we can see.”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“Everything lies. Except the eyes. Didn’t Van Gogh—or maybe it was Tupac—say that?”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“Everything we do, everything that happens to us - good or bad - relies on a million little moments in the past. We fool ourselves if we believe that we control every moment. But we can do something now to change our futures.”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“I have the sense that she thinks she knows about death. But she only knows it from a distance, from comforting people like me.”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me to see the beauty in the world through my own eyes— Ysaye Barnwell”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors

“I had only known her for five days.”
― Dete Meserve, The Memory Collectors