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21 " Here, in two dimensions, they looked so happy. But then, didn’t everyone, in pictures? That was almost the point, wasn’t it? To be able to look back and see yourself smiling, even if the camera had shuttered and clicked while you were standing there thinking about all the things that were wrong? "
― Emily X.R. Pan , The Astonishing Color of After
22 " Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. "
23 " Memories tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, it to remind us how to live" -Leigh "
24 " If he looked in my eyes straight on, he would know how he’d pierced me with an arrow, how its shaft was still sticking out of my chest, twitching each time my heart contracted. And maybe he’d see how my mother had sliced up everything else. "
25 " She was a sea creature and the music was her ocean. "
26 " Maybe that's where all the other colours are hiding - in a dimenson of the world we just can't see, between our sky and the rest of the universe. "
27 " I listen to the clock striking out each determined tick. If only I could rewind, go back in time and ask my mother every question about every tiny thing. How crucial those little fragments are now; how great their absence. I should have saved them up, gathering them like drops of water in a desert. I'd always counted on having an oasis. "
28 " The more I think about it, the more that believing seems like the ultimate definition of family. "
29 " Pretend you're a kid again and you don't even know what's good. Just try for the sake of trying. For the sake of having fun. "
30 " Once upon a time we’d been an almost perfect family. I wish we could rewind, go back to live in those years forever. "
31 " What would I give for a remote control with a button to slow down time, or even rewind a little bit? "
32 " We try so hard to make these little time capsules. Memories strung up just so, like holiday lights, casting the perfect glow in the perfect tones. But that picking and choosing what to look at, what to put on display—that’s not the true nature of remembering. "
33 " Purple confusion clouds my mind. "
34 " A baby bouncing over a knee above a familiar leather sofa. Across the room, deft hands mapping out black and white keys. A living room bursting with magenta warmth and dandelion cheer and all the hues of love, invisible but undeniably there. "
35 " From up here she would do the most extraordinary thing she was capable of: She would love. "
― Emily X.R. Pan , An Arrow to the Moon
36 " Memories that tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, is to remind us how to live. "
37 " I guess the universe has a way of knocking supposed-tos right on their asses. "
38 " Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, is to remind us how to live. "
39 " I'll do all the things I constantly forgot to, all the things I wish I could go back and add in like another layer on a watercolour painting. "
40 " Each piece was a snow globe of emotion and instinct. And the music-- that was another language entirely. "