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“But I guess that’s the thing: we take our memories wherever we go, and what’s left are the ones that stick around, and that’s how we make a life.” (Memorial Quotes)
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“Eiju asked why he had our apartment number, why my mother was around. And Ma said that if only he could see himself, then he wouldn’t have to ask.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions of yourself once stood,”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“So, the next morning, despite everything, I’m at his door. My father’s door. And then I am knocking. Waiting. It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions of yourself once stood, one of a suburb’s magical properties.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“That loving a person means letting them change when they need to. And letting them go when they need to. And that doesn’t make them any less of a home. Just maybe not one for you. Or only for a season or two. But that doesn’t diminish the love. It just changes forms.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“There are no wastes. Either nothing is a waste, or everything is a waste.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“There’s this phenomenon that you’ll get sometimes – but not too often, if you’re lucky – where someone you think you know says something about your gayness that you weren’t expecting at all. Ben called it a tiny earthquake. I don’t think he was wrong. You’re destabilized, is the point. How much just depends on where the quake originated the fault lines.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“We take our memories wherever we go, and what’s left are the ones that stick around, and that’s how we make a life.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“We watch them dissolve in the air. They move through the sky, all at once. And bits of them sift, until they melt away so small that the eye can’t see, caught in the bridge’s wooden slats or in the river or into nothingness altogether, until we’re the only ones who’ll take the fact of their ever existing at all on with us, until we end up losing those memories, too, although even then they’ll still probably be around somewhere. It isn’t very beautiful.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
“You’re taking up space in another human’s brain, she said. You’re a foreign entity. A parasite. That’s a lot by itself.”
Bryan Washington
Memorial
