"It's still scary every time I go..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
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More on Memory
“That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.”
“People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.”
“The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”
More on Past
“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
“No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.”
“I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish.”