Fiction Quote by Oscar Wilde

“MISS PRISM Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”

— Oscar Wilde

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism?…

— Oscar Wilde

“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don’t know…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out…

— Yeonmi Park

“Her mind had been a blank story for so many years, and, suddenly, all the pages were filled with lost memories.”

— Rachel M. Greenebaum

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books,…

— Genevieve Cogman

“Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She feared that she’d missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upone one's mind that the memory might be…

— Cassandra Clare

“Memories, especially when they are of someone we love, are an unblemished version of the things we'd like to remember”

— Becky Wallace