Dreamland Quote by Sarah Dessen

“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

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

— Ann Patchett

“How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect…

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.”

— Stephen Elliott

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And…

— Angela Y. Davis

“How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should supersede them.”

— Stephanie Danler

“Of course, in a hundred years, no one will remember any of us and our story will be lost in obscurity, but for us,…

— Jen Hatmaker

“Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.”

— Chaim Potok

“Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the purpose of…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“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

“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power. Over time…

— Rebecca Solnit