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“We Will Remember Them - Lest we Forget”

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“To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?”

Eternity Memory Forgetting

Book:The Story of Forgetting

Source: The Story of Forgetting

“There was a time when I wished it would stop, when I tried to forget, but forgetting took such strength it was easier to accept you were a missing part of me and get on with life.”

Book:The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

Source: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“In the treaty were provisions for the hundred thousand veterans left maimed and irrevocably mute throughout the city. As is the way of things, their sacred places and comforts have dwindled to a lonely strip of shoreline and a polite nod whenever they are passed in the street.”

Forgetting Veterans

Book:Palimpsest

Source: Palimpsest

“I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.”

Heartbreak Forgetting

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.”

Happiness Memory Forgetting The Present Moment

Book:On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

“Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.”

Love Relationships Forget Heartbreak Memory Breakup Broken Heart Bitterness Forgetting Breakups

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.”

Dream Sadness Uncertainty Forgetting

Book:A Summer to Die

Source: A Summer to Die

“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories that hover on the border. There are all sorts of phantasmagoria that inhabit that realm. The nightmares of a lonely child. Fairy tales appropriated by a mind hungry for a story. The fantasies of an imaginative little girl anxious to explain to herself the inexplicable. Whatever story I may have discovered on the frontier of forgetting, I do not pretend to myself that is the truth.”

Truth Memories Forgetting

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman sighed, clearly annoyed at being interrupted. "If I did he would never forget me," she replied. "Besides...I don't care enough about his life to concern myself with what he does with it as long as he doesn't concern himself with thoughts of me." Her friend furrowed her brows. "Why?" she asked. The woman set her book down, leaned forward provocatively and said, "Because then I'd have to think of him too.”

Letting Go Moving On Forgetting Battle Of The Sexes

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“I’m getting used to the fact that you find me incredibly forgettable.”

Forgetting Resignation Forgettable Sing Sweet Nightingale The Dream War Saga Hudson Vincent

Book:Sing Sweet Nightingale

Source: Sing Sweet Nightingale