“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
“All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“And that was when I understood something I’d never be able to forget about this man. He was in control of himself… — Jenna Barton Copy Share Image
What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“As Mary Grannon, the beloved Mary of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s ‘Just Mary’ hour says: So many parents are clinging to some… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!"… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories.… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“I loved her. I did not know what state of mind I would be in when I got where I was going… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Foretold through memories I remember what dangers I was warned of if lived by ways of sinning. That by living a fruitful… — Nicholas A. McGirr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been… — H. Norman Wright Copy Share Image
Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
“Maury’s mind was practical, solidly founded on history, memory, and experience. It was in no way academic or theoretical. He did not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“But the world feels too big and the words feel too small, and turning the slushy tangle of memories into clean lines… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon… — Daisy Johnson Copy Share Image
A smile is a language everybody understands. It costs nothing but creates much. It happens fast but its memory may last forever.… — Blondie Copy Share Image
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If the vibrant and frolicking merry-go-round of our daily living has been ousted by an eerie void of an intractable vacuum, only… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It's hard to forget hurtful things, isn't it? Children with autism have good memories. So it's much harder for them to forget… — Keiko Tobe Copy Share Image
“Yearn not for yesterday’s memory, for its glory is etched into your soul. Look forward to tomorrow’s awakening, for in its splendor… — Timothy Bax Copy Share Image
That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow.… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment.… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using… — Ray Walston Copy Share Image
A nice person will always be in memory, a better person will always be in dream. But a sincere person will always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time.… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image