Memories in the Drift Quotes

“But I’m not going to think about my mother right now, because those thoughts take me down a rabbit hole where sadness sticks to the walls in hardened globs of old gum that break my fingernails when I try to scrape them off.”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“You’ve worked so hard to remember like a normal person, to appear normal to even your close friends and family.” She pauses, inhales. “Maybe being normal isn’t the point.” “What do you mean?” She leans forward and clasps her hands. “Maybe you’re meant to be extraordinary. And if that’s the case, then you’re already there.” I open and then close my mouth, my mind a blank. What can I say to that? So I write it down because of all the things I record, this seems like the most important to remember.”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“Some people are worth remembering even when it hurts.”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“What day is it? asked Pooh. It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh. (A. A. Milne)”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“The meeting of two eternities, the past and the future . . . is precisely the present moment. —Henry David Thoreau”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“Happiness, not in another place but this place . . . not for another hour, but this hour. —Walt Whitman”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“Maybe being normal isn’t the point.” “What do you mean?” She leans forward and clasps her hands. “Maybe you’re meant to be extraordinary. And if that’s the case, then you’re already there.”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift

“to invite her inside, but I didn’t relent. Her apology had come too late.”
― Melissa Payne, Memories in the Drift