Quotes About Memory

I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.

We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But

What we have instead are false memories aroused later and more pertinent to this later perspective than to the original events. Sometimes in matters of great emotion, one representation, retaining all the original intensity, comes to replace another, which is then discarded and forgotten. The new representation is called a screen memory. A screen memory is a compromise between remembering something painful and defending yourself against that very remembering.

to me." She struck a pose. "And never see you again?" "Aa, so you are planning

The cripple gave him a look. 'I remember that just yesterday you told me I was a cretin and a fool and a disgrace to the memory of my ancestors.' 'Academic hyperbole.' Morg dismissed the complaint with the wave of one hand.'It was merely enthusiastic encouragement, I assure you.' 'Perhaps overenthusiastic would be a more accurate description' muttered the cripple.

Proactive interference," Paul would have explained. "It's when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.

And now, when she looked in the mirror and saw a new line on her own face,a new wrinkle, all she could think was that she was growing old without him

Your relationship with a person doesn't end when they die. It only gets stronger." He winked at her. "Mostly because they're not there to tell you that you're wrong.

They only remembered the good times

It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose.

Her birthday was yesterday, August twentieth. Why had Laura said that she was born in January? 6 Andy drove up and down what seemed like the city of Carrollton's main drag.

Sam knew that this was exactly how Gamma would've wanted to be remembered: head straight, shoulders back, teeth ground, forever stalking joy.

Time turns from a straight line into a sphere and it's not until later that you can hold it in your hand and look at all the different sides, and you think, Oh, now I remember --- this happened, then this happened, then... It's only after the fact that you can pull back into a straight line that makes sense

They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction.

For some reason, he still felt (the same), like (incident) had happened to another (name), his mind going there while his body stayed on the outside, not aging, waiting for him to come back and claim it.

More time passed, the clock ticking forward when she longed for it to go back

Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.

Lena had never understood people sending flowers to a funeral home, but she finally realized that the flowers were something for the living to enjoy, a reminder that there was still life in the world, that people could go on.

Dementia was nothing if not a stroll through the many skeletons lining the family closet.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

La tradición de todas las generaciones muertas oprime como una pesadilla el cerebro de los vivos.

The only memory I have was how the wrestler's balls that were thrust into my face left a saltiness on my lips. At first I assumed it was from the tacos, and then I realised I'd not eaten any today. I

The only memory I have was how the wrestler's balls that were thrust into my face left a saltiness on my lips.