Memoirs Quotes
Memoirs Quote of the day
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)
It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
Hiding white lies only causesanxiety and low self- esteem.Melissa Mae Palmer (on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul)
There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.
The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.
Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.
But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.
Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory
If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.
We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.
...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.
For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.
We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live
Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.
Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories
I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.
Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.
Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten.
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken.