The Memory of Us Quotes

“My own monsters were self-concocted fits of overthinking.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“. . . and she listened with the heart of a friend who adopts your feelings as her own.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“You are my vocation. I was made to love you, protect you, through the good and bad, and through every vow that will be asked of me.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“I thought of our family, sometimes, as a tapestry: a perfect blending and weaving of colored threads that produced an enviable picture on our surface, while underneath we were a tangled maze of knots and stitches, colliding and separating in our own directions, united only in the mandate to keep the outward appearances lovely.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“I chose to visit Charles on weekdays, when I knew Kyle would be in Liverpool. Yet, as the days on the calendar dwindled and my departure for London grew imminent, I allowed myself one final Saturday visit. I couldn’t bear to leave without seeing him one more time. But I wasn’t going to let him see me. I took Father’s Kodak from the closet in his library and hid it in the zippered compartment of my handbag”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“It is no wonder that some people are afraid of the dark, fearing what might be hiding in the shadows. My own monsters were self-concocted fits of overthinking.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“Painstakingly preserving her legendary beauty with creams and ointments. Delaying the day when time would steal it away. And”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“They’re not just ‘little facts.’ You never know when they might come in handy. You might fall into a ditch, and a passerby hears your cries. ‘Help me,’ you say. ‘I will,’ he responds, ‘but only if you can tell me how many stars there are on the Paramount Pictures logo.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us

“that I could get my beauty rest.”
― Camille Di Maio, The Memory of Us