“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

“Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

“My darling one…. I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

Ram Dass book Be Here Now

“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

“Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Vortex

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

“Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany