Memory Quote by Tim O'Brien

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

— Chaim Potok

“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to…

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Emory R. Frie

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

— Stephanie Danler

“You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story.”

— Gregory Maguire

“someday no one will remember that she ever existed, i wrote in my notebook, and then, or that i did. because memories fall apart,…

— John Green

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another.”

— N.K. Jemisin

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

— Ann Patchett

“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

“Memory is like a story washed by rain; a few erased moments, a few smudged, few unharmed.”

— Alka Dimri Saklani, Beyond Secrets

“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

— Cassandra Clare

“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