William Trevor Quotes

My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.

Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

Memories, priceless. Well not really priceless, but there you go!

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.