Reminiscence Quotes

Nick Bannister: No such thing as a happy ending. All endings are sad. Especially if the story was happy.

Mae: Men are strange, aren't they? They don't see what's right in front of them.

[People like us don't fall in love. We, we plummet to places... deep and dark. But love? Love is the thing we climb to. Rung after rung, we, we pull ourselves out of ourselves... reaching for something greater. If we could just hold on. I wish I could've held on longer]

Nick Bannister: Memory is the boat that sails against its current.

Mae: Don't say always. Always makes promises it cant keep.

Nick Bannister: Memories are like perfume. Better in small doses.

Emily 'Watts' Sanders: Missing people is part of this world. Without that sadness, you can't taste the sweet.

Nick Bannister: What other ending could there be?"

Nick Bannister: [to Emily] Your best moments aren't behind you. They're waiting for your arrival.

Nick Bannister: You're going on a journey. A journey through memory. Your destination? A place and time you've been before. To reach it, all you have to do is follow my voice.

Emily 'Watts' Sanders: The problem with going dry is the mind is clear. But the hands... they shake.

Nick Bannister: The past can haunt a man. That's what they say. That the past is just a series of moments. Each one perfect. Complete. A bead on the necklace of time. The past doesn't haunt us. Wouldn't even recognize us. If there are ghosts to be found, it's us who haunt the past. We haunt it, so we can look again. See the people we miss, and the things we missed about them.

Nick Bannister: People love their secrets. They think secrets are the one thing they can take with them when they go.

Mae: [to Nick] People like us don't fall in love. We plummet to places, deep and dark. But love? Love is the thing we climb to.

Nick Bannister: Only the rich mold the world to meet their delusions.

Nick Bannister: Nothing is more addictive than the past. Who wouldn't want to be reunited with a loved one? Or relive the most meaningful moments of their life? But memories, even good ones, have a voracious appetite. If you're not careful, they consume you.

Nick Bannister: Nostalgia never goes out of style.

Emily 'Watts' Sanders: Missing people is a part of this world. Without that sadness you can't taste the sweet.

Mae: Maybe memory fades for a reason. If we just dwelled on the bad things in the past, we'd never get over them. And if we just dwelled on the good, we might never match it again.

Nick Bannister: Forgotten things can always be fished up and dusted off. But the lost, those things people never really took much notice of until they were gone. They're defined by their absence.

Nick Bannister: Dying men always want closure. Some last, happy thought to cling to before they die.

Mae: Don't say "always." "Always" makes promises it can't keep.

Emily 'Watts' Sanders: You can't remember something that never made an impression.

Emily 'Watts' Sanders: Missing people is a part of this world. Without that sadness, you can't taste the sweet.

Nick Bannister: People don't just disappear.