Ann Brashares - My Name Is Memory (2010)

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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.

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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.

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It was funny how the old practices always came around again. 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. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.

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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.

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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

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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

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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It s you who makes me a person.

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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

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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.

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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

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It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.

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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

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Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you ll keep faith in me, you ll remember who we are, and you ll never feel despair.

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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.

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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

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