You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they're inaccessible.

—Casey McQuiston in White & Royal Blue

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About Casey McQuiston

Portrait of Casey McQuiston

Casey McQuiston (born January 21, 1991) is an American author of romance novels in the new adult fiction genre, best known for their New York Times best-selling debut novel Red, White & Royal Blue, in which the son of America's first female president falls in love with a prince of...

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There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.

—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk

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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

—Barbara Kingsolver in The Lacuna

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

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Some days I imagined getting on a bus and leaving this town behind. The memories weren't good. At least most of them weren't.

—Abbi Glines in Because of Low

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The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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