Memories Quote by A. Lee Martinez

“Memory is the most potent truth. Show me history untouched by memories and you show me lies.”

— Carlos Eire

“Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that…

— Sara Shepard

“That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Old memories are hard to shed. They are who we are. And all memories, true or false, are equally real.”

— Jerry Merritt

“Imagination, like memory, can transform lies to truth.”

— Christina Garcia

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie

“There are truths you know but will not speak. Even to yourself in the darkness where we are all of us alone. There are…

— Mark Lawrence

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“Memory is like a long, dark street, illuminated at intervals in a light so bright that it shows up every detail. And then one…

— Susan Hill

“Access to memories does not guarantee access to truth.”

— David Mitchell

“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves…

— Jim Stovall

“about one’s life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We’re too busy standing in the middle of it…

— Pat Summitt