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"Things like that sometimes get stored away, and there never seems to be a good time to dig them up again. It hurts a lot less to keep them buried."

—Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here

"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. I think that’s the strangest thing of all now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been."

—Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From

"You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story."

—Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

—George R.R. Martin

"Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and again. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound."

—Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl

"He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?"

—Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

"When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things."

—Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

"And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don’t know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that’s the way it is with the best memories."

—Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife