My Name Is Memory Quotes

“I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“But we were in the same place at the same time in our lives, and for that alone I was inexpressibly buoyant and a few hundred years' worth of grateful.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“My memory is good for some things and not others.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He could take happiness from her, but could he give any?”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the birth of the first distinct soul. And much happiness ensued.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I confess I've relived it so many times, I hardly remember it anymore. My feelings are strong enough to refract and distort the truth of that journey. But then... my feelings are the truth of that journey”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I can't wait for you forever, she found herself thinking as she lay in bed most mornings, thinking about her dreams, waiting for her alarm to ring.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“It wasn't meant to work with them, was it? He didn't know if he could try anymore.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“In this present body he hadn't been loved, and he found almost nothing to love about himself.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He didn't want to go forward, but he always wanted to get another chance.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Because they forgot and I remembered. They would be lost soon enough, and I would keep going. The best I could do was hold on to them after they forgot themselves.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Why did he keep going when everyone else got to start over?”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“You don't mean it," he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. "Yes, I do," she said.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“What is it we recognize? The soul is a mysterious thing. It's no less mysterious for me, though I've seen my own and others' refracted through hundreds of bodies over time.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory