Memory in Love and Relationships

A photo of a mother before she was a mother. Dead parents young again at a picnic. A grey pond that never leaves. Love remembered is half of love.

The quotes

5 quotes, in the order they happen.

They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock

Causley · Eden Rock · parents and children · memory · loss

His dead parents at a picnic, young again. He is old. They wait across a stream.

I had not thought that it would be like this

Causley · Eden Rock · loss · memory

The last line, on its own. Death, or memory, is not what he expected.

I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello

Duffy · Before You Were Mine · parents and children · memory

Duffy looks at a photo of her mother before she was born. She wanted that girl, the fun one.

The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?

Duffy · Before You Were Mine · parents and children · memory

The ten years before the baby arrived were the mother's best. Duffy knows it. She was the yell.

stamping stars from the wrong pavement

Duffy · Before You Were Mine · parents and children · memory

Her mother dancing, sparks from her heels, in the wrong place for a good girl.