This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives.
– Brooke Hayward
Related Quotes:
- The wreckage of stars – I built a world from this wreckage. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public. – John Green
- The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- For some, the left testicle is larger than the right one. For Chuck Norris, each testicle is larger than the other one. – Oliver Oliver Reed
- …larger than life…I’ve never understood that expression. What’s larger than life? – Nicole Krauss
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- more guilt, guilt, guilt. That’s the Irish condition. – Adrian McKinty
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- We call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives? – Kamand Kojouri
- Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. – Gene Kranz
- Losing one pint of blood’s an accident. Losing two is carelessness. – Rachel Caine
- Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. – Bryant McGill
- Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have. – Victor Serge
- … life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it’s out. Forever. – David Wong
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written – Brooke Stonex
- Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war. – Paolo Bacigalupi
- I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage. – Mary Hughes
- Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses. – Abdulrazak Gurnah
- The big-ass hole, all of the wreckage and mess. I’d done that. Me, – Kylie Scott
- the path is lost, and I’ve become part of the wreckage − another meaningless casualty. – Ky Grabowski
- Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It’s not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage – Henry Rollins
- Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. – Renae Jones
- Always choose the adventure … unless, it’s chilly outside and there’s a cup of warm coffee resting near a book and comfy sofa. – Barbara Brooke
- A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist’s world. – Arthur Golden
- Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? – Ahmad Ardalan
- If you want self-esteem.- -œDo estimable acts- ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir – Cupcake Brown
- Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. – Mary Karr
- I don’t need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I’m there. – Lori Lesko
- Scars are something of a body’s memoir. – Chris Nicolaisen
- Scars are something of a body’s memoir. – Chris Nicolaisen
- A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are. – Sean Wilsey
- Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? – Slash Coleman
- Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
- There is a good guilt and a bad guilt… the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God. – Chuck Bridges
- Got something to do with guilt,’ Toro said. ‘Her mother,neh?’ ‘Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. – Kiana Davenport
- Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical. – Sarah Ruhl
- This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. – Atul Gawande