Memoir Quotes
Quotes about Memoir
20 quotes
- “My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and me...” — Roger Klare
- “It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be fill...” — Daisy Hernandez
- “The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.” — Victoria Twead
- “I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.” — Reba Riley
- “That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.” — Leigh Newman
- “Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.” — Mary Jane Walker
- “...I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle.I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker.” — Lily Brooks-dalton
- “This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.” — Richard Glover
- “But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.” — Karen Wheeler
- “There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.” — Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
- “Each day has the potential of being your best day. You decide what each day will bring.” — Paige Rawl
- “The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.” — Greg Garrett
- “The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher
- “We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up” — Madeleine Black
- “This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.” — Lavinia Greenlaw
- “I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.” — Jackie Sarah Parry
- “In 2005, my mad half, HER was born... ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012.” — Karen Tyrrell
- “Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.” — William Least Heat-moon
- “I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” — Sonali Deraniyagala
- “God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.” — Francis Spufford