Books Quote by Paula Stokes

“Memory revises me.”

— Li-Young Lee

“All of a sudden out of nowhere I can bring back things I haven't thought about for years. It's pretty interesting. Memory is so…

— Haruki Murakami

“in my opinion some things about you would not change no matter what has happened to your memory.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“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

“Memory is just an alternate version of reality.”

— Candace Bushnell

“The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a second before.…

— Garth Stein

“Sorry. Whenever a new memory pops up, it sort of takes me by surprise. It’s like finding a lost piece of a puzzle.”

— Bonnie Dee

“I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.”

— Lewis Thomas

“Everything’s always changing. Nothing stays the same. Yesterday’s gone forever, I’ve got memories and my name.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“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

“Remembering a narrative alters it.”

— Gregory Benford