My Name Is Memory Quotes

“You should find him because he loves you.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I killed her once and died for her many times”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“But it was smell that carried memory.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“The path of your life can change in an instant.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let the world happen to you.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“This body is breaking down, but I am not.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on the point of a pin. You could bring your entire world into doubt in a span of a few seconds.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I felt as though the
past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it was only by my efforts that they kept going.
If I gave up it would all dissolve into the raw chaos of the senses. That’s all we really have. The rest is romanticism and storytelling. But we need
those stories. I guess I do.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory