Quote by Anita Diamant

“It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.”

— Robert Drewe

“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“Your earliest thoughts, remnants of how you lived inside yourself as a small boy, You can remember only some of it, isolated bits and…

— Paul Auster

“I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all…

— Raymond Chandler

“Our memories and the events of our lives are untidy things. We wish that we could file them away and shut the door, or…

— Deb Caletti

“I always thought I didn't have real childhood memories. That my history fit into a few lines. One one page, maybe. In large print.…

— Alejandro Zambra

“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time…

— Kaimana Wolff

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

— Jerry Merritt

“Memories can be tricky, especially those from childhood.”

— Karen Dionne

“My most precious memories were closely guarded secrets and I only looked at them occasionally, taking them out of my Pandora’s Box of the…

— Jane Harvey-Berrick