Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

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 have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Some things are hard to let go of.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Stop dragging my heart around.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

I’m trying to make myself let you go before Ms. Mary comes to get you, but you go and shiver at my touch and weaken my resolve to stop holding you.

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.