“Time travel me back.Let me say good-bye again.A minute more, a moment,a chance to see. . .”

“8I ricordi veramente belli continuano a vivere e a splendere per sempre, pulsando dolorosamente assieme al tempo che passa.”

“What had Old Joe Hunt answered when I knowingly claimed that history was the lies of the victors? “As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.” Do we remember that enough when it comes to our private lives?”

“Be what you must, because who you are is all of us.”

“We crave someone to love, chase someone to hate, and demand someone else decide who receives which fate.”

“The day your souls see their faces or smell their memories in someone else’s stories, and doesn’t bleed anymore. You know, you have healed.”

“TIME CHANGES our appearances—and our addresses…BUT—TIME can NEVER STEAL from US the Memories that SHAPE OUR LIVES and OUR DESTINIES.”

“They refused to live in these moments right now. And they got busy in turning everything they come across, into a memory, which they could visit in the future.”

“A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.”

“Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm extended immeasurably to keep hold of my reaching hand. But Father Time, being a cruel master, will not grant such a wish. And so I tuck you away as cherished memories, stored in a treasure box buried in my heart. And in times of solitude, I shall bring you out to view like rainbows.”

“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”

“Hold on to and cherish even the smallest of moments… you may not know it yet, but years from now when you look back… they could become one of your biggest memories!”

“Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.”

“It makes me want to hold on to this one for just a moment longer.”