She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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KENNETH LONERGAN There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in... JAMES CARL NELSON She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome... JOHN SCALZI Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me... RICHARD CARMONA I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles an... STEVEN PRICE My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying ... GEOFFREY CANADA When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask... NEIL JACKSON My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an onl... ACTION BRONSON The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organ... KURT MASUR My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own m... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH My first CD that I had was the Ying Yang Twinz, and my grandma bought it for me. Honestly, I think m... LIL UZI VERT Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did.... JOHN GREEN I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my fat... MICHAEL STRAHAN He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling , teeth an... KELLY CREAGH She gave the impression that she had somehow slipped off her leash. As though she was taking herself... ARUNDHATI ROY She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remembe... SARAH WATERS I took up space. 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He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. PARIS JACKSON I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ... JUAN DIXON Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my o... KATHERINE DUNN For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my... JOHN GREEN But Julian's blood was different. When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way hi... CASSANDRA CLARE Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. BRENDAN FRASER Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me lik... JAMIE MCGUIRE I was frozen in my seat. It was the first time I had ever seen people like me on the screen. GAVIN HOOD I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own b... KAMI GARCIA Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui... HANYA YANAGIHARA I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed ... KAMI GARCIA My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of... RONDA ROUSEY Orlaith was the best kisser and she had a fantastic set of boobs on her as well. Even though I got a... MAKOSI MUSAMBASI I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing ... PHILIPPA GREGORY The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond m... KEITH THIBODEAUX I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Los... SANJAY DUTT Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think p... ED BRADLEY She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�... ALI SMITH It was just the most gross feeling ever. It was like I had bitten my own finger. CARYN PIERCE Strangling that girl was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Number one, it was her first movie. ... TOM SIZEMORE We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it w... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it i... ROSECRANS BALDWIN My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m... MARILYN MANSON I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. Th... MELODY STRONG But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... STEVE MARTIN My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends w... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautif... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lori was part of our family, ... She was there for all of my graduations. Whenever my big brother ca... ANDRES PEREZ It was the first time either of them had ever held another's hand, and for them alone, the immensity... LAINI TAYLOR I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN I turned to face Audrey, and everything I loved was right there in her eyes, the memories tangible: ... RACHAEL WADE I mean, she was just dedicated beyond compare. For all of us, it was like losing your right arm. 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MIKE MYERS I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was... NATALIE COUGHLIN I feel I had to grow up fast. When I was younger, my mom would go out and leave me by myself. When I... DANIELLE JONES All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l... DANIEL KEYES My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-scho... BRITT ROBERTSON The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been cre... ALICE HOFFMAN She had to fight to the death all the way to the line. It was something else. She ran with everythin... HEATHER QUARANTILLO After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot o... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w... NATALIA VODIANOVA My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish... TOM FORD My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ... CHRISTOPHER JUDGE
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GRAHAM GREENE Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ... GRAHAM GREENE We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s... GRAHAM GREENE Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. GRAHAM The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea... BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i... BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus... BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t... BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab... BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na... BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ... BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo... BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s... BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans... BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor... BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa... BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo... BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ... SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane. ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin... NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib... ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ... ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good. ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that. ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott... ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con... ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens. ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do. ALAN GREENE