Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Daniel Nayeri

Quote by Daniel Nayeri

“That’s what forgetting your grandpa’s face feels like. There’s no good in it. Nothing to gain but nothing. A piece of your heart makes a sound like a groan and disappears. Then you poke at it sometimes, trying to remember what was there by the shape of the hole. That’s it. You are less.”

Quote by Daniel Nayeri

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue
Create image

Work

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Daniel Nayeri

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Daniel Nayeri. more

You May Also Like

“Topoanalysis, then, would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives. In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, th stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles. At times we think we know ourselves in time, when all we know is a sequence of fixations in the spaces of the being's stability - a being who does not want to melt away, and who, even in the past, when he sets out in search of things past, wants time to "suspend" its flight. In its countless alveoli space contains compressed time. That is what space is for.”

TimeSpaceTopoanalysis
Author:Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space
Create image

“We collected our things from our quarters---the ones that had been assigned to us and the ones we had adopted--- and I gathered up all my notes that would slowly metamorphose into The Extinction of Irena Rey. Maybe Grey Eminence was right that writing has to be an engine of extinction. But the first to inhabit a traumatized landscape are often fungi, lichen, slime molds, and species of plants known as "ruderal," a word that derives from the Latin word for "rubble." Maybe the extinction of Irena Rey made the space for a ruderal art, like a book about what happened to her translators.”

ExtinctionRubbleForeshadowingBook TitleInhabitants
Book:The Extinction of Irena Rey
Create image

“...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honour heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honour the Pharaohs. Only instead of being made out of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. That's why your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of with stone.”

MemoriesWonderRemembranceGood DeedsActions Over WordsRj Palacio
Author:RJ Palacio
Create image

“Cleaning out my closets and came across a dusty old book, buried and forgotten in there. I sat down and opened it up. It’s about a little girl in Finland with blonde ringlets who got mad at her grandmother and decided to walk to America. Buck naked except for the bright yellow Nokia rain boots. That’s how the journey started. Forward 53 years and I’m still that girl with a lifetime of adventure and walkabouts in between. I did end up in America, a country I embrace as my own, but the path here came with many detours and dead ends,but I’m here. Finally.”

AdventureDeterminedJourney Of LifePath Of LifeEmbrace The JourneyThirdculturekidWalkabout
Author:Riitta Klint
Create image