Memento Quotes

“When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was.

I guessed my features had just been caught off guard that day. When I peered closer, they rushed to reassemble, as though to say, Oh, shit. But it was as if they couldn’t remember their original placement, and as a result, the final impression was a little off-kilter.”
― Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder

“The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?”
― Leonard Shelby

“Life’s not worth living if you’re not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!”
― Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder

“What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Wir sollten feiern, was wir feiern können.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“La vida podía ser buena en ocasiones, pero a veces eso dependía en parte de nosotros.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for a memento. Something to stick up on your mantelpiece so you can look at it and remember a time when you were actually of use to the world around you, when you were more than relevant-
when you were necessary. But you've got no imagination, no idea of the power contained in something like that. You can only see what it was: a part of an antique, as useless and outdated as the broken statues you passed along your way. But we... we have true vision. We're the ones who will take the potential nearly destroyed by the likes of you, nearly lost to the desert or even shattered by your own hand, and put it to a better use.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“How about a picture?" he said, winding on the spool of film. "A little memento of your seaside rendezvous, Miss Smitham?" She perked up, just as he'd hoped she would- Dolly loved having her photograph taken- and Jimmy glanced about for the sun's position. He walked to the far side of the small field in which they'd had their picnic.
Dolly had pushed herself up to a sitting position and was stretching like a cat. "Like this?" she said. Her cheeks were flushed from the sun, her bow lips plump and red from the strawberries he'd bought at a roadside stall.
"Perfect," he said, and she really was.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Once in a while you go somewhere, or meet someone, and you take a few selfies as memento, that's life - but if you spend every moment of life taking selfies, then that's not called being social, that's called being sick - clinically sick.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“You have every right to cling to a precious keepsake. The Lord knows you've lost too much already. I would never expect you to give up so small a comfort as well, Shoshanah.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Royal Artisan