Fiction Quote by Karen Fowler

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

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

— Daniel Alarcón

“My Past life as a human is now just memories, I try hard not to forget them.”

— Bianca Lizbeth Garcia

“Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from…

— F. Sionil José

“The past is no longer hurtful when memories can be seen, and not looked at.”

— Ioana Cristina Casapu

“Everyone’s past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.”

— Andrew Davidson

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

— Matt Gallagher

“...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.”

— Louise Penny

“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

“We forget most of our past but embody all of it.”

— Adam Begley

“Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Maybe the problem with holding onto memories so tightly is that they don’t allow us to make room for the future. Maybe the gentle…

— Ryan Galloway