“The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.”— Jay Bell, amazon.com
“The Past, then, is a constant accumulation of images. It can be easily contemplated and listened to, tested and tasted at random, so that it ceases to mean the orderly alternation of linked events that it does in the large theoretical sense.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“A definite picture that he knew he had never seen in reality— remained within him more real than any actual memory.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Ever had something on the tip of your tongue, but the harder you try to remember it, the more it slips away?”— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real. I've been living so long with my pictures of you that I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel.”— The Cure, open.spotify.com
“How can you separate those things though? The people are the place is the people.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Please let me keep this memory, just this one.”— Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth, Joel Barish, Jim Carrey, imdb.com
“When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of an impeccably narrowing corridor.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com