Children Quote by Salman Rushdie

“It was as if, after years of setting aside memories,the pile had grown too high, and had tumbled, obliging her to take an inventory…

— Loida Maritza Perez

“History is sacred—like a nature hike. ‘Leave only footprints, take only memories.”

— Rysa Walker

“My mother had not let anything go. Inside that self we knew, which might at times appear blurred a bit, or sidetracked, she kept…

— Alice Munro

“...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back there in…

— Alden Bell

“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want to recall…

— Betty Smith

“It’s not that Mom didn’t keep anything, it’s that she kept the wrong things. We leave memories on objects we love and cherish, things…

— Victoria Schwab

“She was making a conscious effort to take with her all the best things about the world she wanted to leave, just in case…

— Jodi Picoult

“Though she'd try to do otherwise, she had never been able to stop cluttering her present with her past. Now somebody she didn't know…

— Sonya Hartnett

“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the…

— Rebecca Wells

“She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a…

— Susan Wiggs

“History is also a hard taskmaster, for she covers her paths by erasing so much evidence from her records—”

— Stephen Jay Gould

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras