Locked Memories Quotes

#1. Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

Jodi Picoult

#2. Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories.

Maria V. Snyder

#3. Alert. Aware. Dreams and memories slip away. Thoughts tumble. Tangled. Confused. Sounds from my mouth are primal. What I want to say, what I need to say stays locked inside.

Kristen Heitzmann

#4. And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind.

Terry Brooks

#5. The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.

Anmol Rawat

#6. Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.

Duane Elgin

#7. I decided it would do me good to be among people, even if it meant being among them by myself.

David R. Brown

#8. For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

Anne Rice

#9. The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it.
You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.

Edith Wharton

#10. Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

Tan Twan Eng

#11. Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

Cory Booker

#12. I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

Ma Jian

#13. Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#14. Some memories refuse to be locked in time or place, they are always present.

Nathan Filer

#15. Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

Julian Fellowes

#17. Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Chubby Checker

#18. Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

Brian Jacques

#19. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

Richard Russo

#20. The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

Sebastian Faulks

#21. Really? Then why is it my memories from that time are locked up tighter than a virgin in an iron maiden chastity belt that's been welded shut? I had always had a way with words.

Eve Langlais

#22. The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed.

Amanda Steele

#23. Many thanks for your good wishes. The fact is, however, that I have not been ill except a two days attack of indigestion and subsequent fatigue, from which I am quite recovered. It is less easy to recover from a serious attack of indignation.

Harriet Boyd Hawes

#24. The Pentagon also wants a system capable of launching speed-of-light strikes and counterstrikes using preprogrammed scenarios so that human intervention won't be necessary.

Anonymous

#25. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.

Kilroy J. Oldster