My Name Is Memory Quotes

“Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“When we stopped to eat in the midday, she spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved — the two go together.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Or was he the romantic fiction of a girl who'd been desperate for a handsome stranger to come along?”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“He'd given up blessings he hadn't been worthy of for the chance to be with her, and now he'd lost that, too.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name is Memory

“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams. Were you allowed to change from one side to the other?”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Elle errait le coeur brisé, sans savoir qui le lui avait brisé. Elle avait dû se le briser toute seule, conclut-elle.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I wondered if I was an error of God's planning that would be fixed at the end of my life.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“loving a person was all you could do.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“but my soul was hardly situated before I moved along.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name is Memory

“There was a burst of enthusiasm for recycling every so often, but it usually didn't extend to the heart or the mind. It was limited to tires or bottles... What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved. The two go together.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory