Children Quote by Salman Rushdie

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was…

— Cassandra Clare

“On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because to speak…

— Kamila Shamsie

“The whole experience was prime material for memory repression. I”

— Bobby Adair

“It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.…

— Marilynne Robinson

“[M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to…

— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles; next they…

— Glenn L. Pace

“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical memory. Historians…

— Patrik Ouředník

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“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

“Memories don't die, they become shelved in the recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life reignite them, lighting up the heart,…

— Mala Naidoo

“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the heart, in…

— Mala Naidoo

“The world [...] an endless battle of contrasting memories.”

— Haruki Murakami