“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Tears upon tears splat on to the lined pages in my hands as I read about a nightmare come true. Quickly, I wipe away the saltwater so it won't fade the ink. Because even as my chest caves in and makes me hate the chipper birds and everything else, I know that I needed to read this today, and I need to read it again tomorrow.
For me, reading is remembering.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“The simplicity of knowing what’s coming isn’t so simple after all.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“I think it’s just the whole package. I can’t pick you apart. I just love all of you. I think I always have.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“I can’t stay away from you,” he whispers...“Don’t stay away from me, then,” I whisper back...”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Okay, fine, we were married elsetime. Anyway, we died of whatever you die from, let’s say natural causes. But we were in love, so our souls keep finding each other in whatever forms our bodies take.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.” “Cute,” I say, feeling my eyelids droop and sleep approach. “Don’t forget to tell me about the last hour in the closet.” “I’ll re-create it for you tomorrow,” Luke says...”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Tomorrow is Monday so it must be the weekend”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Luke and I stay nestled together until he nudges me.
We’d better get going, he says gently.
I guess I dozed off. I’m not letting you fall asleep without a note again. Why not? I ask, stretching. I kiss him on the cheek and add, with a sly smile, you don’t have to worry, Luke. I’ll remember you in the morning.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“....LondonLane: I’m sure I don’t remember everything. I remember the future the way you remember the past. You remember the really good and bad and forget some of the middle, right?
LJH6678: Sure.
LondonLane: Same with me. Why?
LJH6678: Do you remember us having sex?...
LJH6678: Well? LondonLane: Truth? LJH6678: YES! LondonLane: Yes.....
Luke learned that he’s going to die young today and all he wants to ask me about is sex?”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Trying not to think about it is only making it worse.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“When I finally accept it, the truth stings. But there's no time to dwell on it, and there are only two choices: I can remind myself about someone who is not a part of my life, or I can leave him out of my notes to save myself from going through this all over again tomorrow.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“There was an awkward silence
Until I throw a rock at it”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Jo Lane had in fact lived there for five years until she moved on. “Where did she go?” I asked innocently, not getting it. “I’m so sorry to be the one telling you this, but Jo passed last winter,” the young nurse said. “She died,” she added, probably because of my dazed look.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“My heart leaps as I remember this morning's note. This boy is my weirdo.
My weirdo is hot.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Who knows until we experience it? I think that heaven and reincarnation are both ways of making us feel better about what happens to people's souls after death. I hope at least one of them is true.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Olvidar es un lujo, nadie vendrá a llevarse las cosas que quisiera no haber visto, las cosas que quisiera no haber conocido. Tendré que vivir con ellas.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“I can always change the future.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
“Es curioso como la posibilidad te puede levantar los ánimos. Es curioso como la realidad te puede hundir.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Forgotten
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“Her bulk seemed to fill the world, blocking out the horizon and casting a shadow over the magicians huddled on the wall. The enchantment appeared to encompass everything upon her person, for as she grew, so did the fronds of seaweed draped over her, and the pretty amber pendant on her breast expanded till it was itself the height and breadth of a grown man.
"Midsommer!" roared Lord Burrow. "Look to your wife!"
"He can hardly miss her", remarked Prunella.”
― Zen Cho, quote from Sorcerer to the Crown
“far can you go into the woods?”
― quote from Penpal
“When they had understood the hoopoe's words,
A clamour of complaint rose from the birds:
'Although we recognize you as our guide,
You must accept - it cannot be denied -
We are a wretched, flimsy crew at best,
And lack the bare essentials for this quest.
Our feathers and our wings, our bodies' strength
Are quite unequal to the journey's length;
For one of us to reach the Simorgh's throne
Would be miraculous, a thing unknown.
[...] He seems like Solomon, and we like ants;
How can mere ants climb from their darkened pit
Up to the Simorgh's realm? And is it fit
That beggars try the glory of a king?
How ever could they manage such a thing?'
The hoopoe answered them: 'How can love thrive
in hearts impoverished and half alive?
"Beggars," you say - such niggling poverty
Will not encourage truth or charity.
A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul -
His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.
[...] Your heart is not a mirror bright and clear
If there the Simorgh's form does not appear;
No one can bear His beauty face to face,
And for this reason, of His perfect grace,
He makes a mirror in our hearts - look there
To see Him, search your hearts with anxious care.”
― Farid ud-Din Attar, quote from The Conference of the Birds
“It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper--”
― Rudolfo Anaya, quote from Bless Me, Ultima
“Is this place called Virgins?
Well, I shouldn't be here!
-Nina”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
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