Traces Quotes

“Redhead

All over the house
Strands of copper hair
Like filaments from a cobweb
Collect.
If you and I
Were ever to part—

For months, perhaps years,
I’d be combing out,
Brushing or picking up
Strands of significance,

Traces of you
In my life”
― john j geddes

“My Christmas ornament and Dad's painting had been destroyed, but just because they were destroyed doesn't mean some traces of them, however small and broken, weren't left behind. And if there are enough pieces, you can see what the original object was supposed to be.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“the way a poem bleaches everything the color of itself.
this is the way people stain.
— pomegranate”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“If you ask what is one of the funniest things in the world, I would say that the wrong traces left by a man hundreds or even thousands of years ago are naively followed by millions of people hundreds and even thousands of years later!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,” there will be a trail of audible testimony in your wake indicating otherwise.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“Exactly,' Cardan says, reaching out a finger to trace the shape of my ear. The curve, I realise. I shudder, eyes closing against the hot spike of shame. He keeps talking, but he seems to realise what he's been doing and snatches his hand away. Now we're both ashamed.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“C’est ça la passion, ma belle. C’est vertigineux. Et parfois, ça laisse des traces.”
― Joanne Richoux, Les Collisions

“The traces you left behind are so important that a wrong trace you left behind could create a thousand more wrong traces!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Leaving a bad trace behind on the path of life is better than not leaving any trace at all, because even that bad trace will cause people to find the good trace later on!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“My dear friend, you don't have to worry that the traces you leave behind will disappear because the traces you leave behind will always disappear!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“My dear friend, if the traces you leave behind come and pass you one day, I don't know if you have done right and fair deeds, but one thing I do know is that you have definitely done things that make a strong impact!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don't tell me you believe in ghosts, Finn.'

'Ghosts, not exactly. Traces, yeah. Sort of.'

'Traces?'

'Here's my theory. Everything is energy. We all leave something behind. Now, there's folk who'll swear on their granny's last breath that they've seen a ghost. And I reckon some of them have. Or rather, they've seen traces of a past energy.'
...
Finn was talking with his hands now, trying to make some sense. 'We think that time moves forward, in a linear fashion. Yeah? But sometimes you get deja vu, or there's some mad coincidence that you can't explain. I think time doesn't move in a linear fashion, but in a spiral, and sometimes there's echoes from the past. And a ghost is just an echo of someone.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches