Anecdote Quote by Kamila Shamsie

“Yet as the days went by and the pains in my feet subsided, I began to look back on my little adventure with a…

— Ken Ilgunas

“The memories were strange clingy things like burrs knotted in his hair. He could choose to let them be, he only felt them when…

— Andrew J. Peters

“I remember, in no particular order: - a shiny inner wrist; - steam rising from a wet sink as a hot frying pan is…

— Julian Barnes

“I don't want these memories to become slippery, to disapper into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want…

— Sara Zarr

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what…

— Hortense Calisher

“The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions…

— Allie Burke

“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us…

— Philip Roth

Memories are wonderful to make but sometimes painful to remember.

— Anonymous

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled…

— William Faulkner

''Memories are shards of glass when you step on the sharp pieces your feet will bleed.''

— Jeremy Limn

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things…

— Esther Meynell