Memory Quote by Jennifer McMahon

“And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished,…

— Jennifer McMahon

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

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

— Daniel Alarcón

“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

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and…

— Noam Shpancer

“The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.”

— Alex Garland

“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want to recall…

— Betty Smith

“Memory is imagination in reverse.”

— Stephen Evans

“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't…

— Jamie Kain

“We alter the past for the sake of the future, memories bending like light.”

— Matt Gallagher