Amy Caudill

“Everything starts with you and ends with you. Anything else is just the stuff that happens in the middle.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“I want a lifetime of that. I want to be able to talk about my family and they know what I mean without me having to go into the backstory. To just say ‘Tristan’ and they nod and roll their eyes. I want someone who knows all my petty vendettas and they honor them no matter how out of pocket they are.” “So, mustard stuff.” She laughed. Then her smile fell a little. “You can’t fake that kind of thing,” she said, softly. “It’s the result of a parallel life. A shared collection of experiences, like a snowball rolling downhill, getting bigger as it goes. And then you get to a point where you’re so far in, you can never replace that person. Not really. No one else can ever be the same kind of witness because you’ve lived through so much. It really is a once in a lifetime thing.” Her eyes went a little sad. “Can you imagine losing that? One memory at a time?”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“They say that you won’t remember what someone said, but you’ll always remember how they made you feel. I don’t think this moment would be the same if it wasn’t for how it felt.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“She couldn’t make more memories with me. But I could still make memories with her. I would be a witness to her life, even though she was done witnessing mine.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me