Quotes About Recollection

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

his memory, like a battered drunk at the end of a spree, groped over the events of the last six weeks.

Also, and most disconcertingly, why did the recollection of the young courier kneeling before her—the brief pressure of his hand upon her bare instep as he had helped guide it inside the slipper, the golden brown of his gaze that had lingered one moment too long on her lips, the soft burr of his accent (like her, he had come from a distant land as a child)—why did it make her feel so profoundly unsettled?

Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.

There were some thoughts—such as a memory of running under the pouring rain, and how it felt—that I couldn't even begin to put into words…Yet their image was clear in my mind.

Haf?zan?n bahçesi çoraklaÅŸmaya baÅŸlay?nca," demiÅŸti o son akÅŸamlar?n birinde Celal, "insan elde kalan son aÄŸaçlar?n ve güllerin üzerine ÅŸefkatle titrer. Kuruyup gitmesinler diye, sabahtan akÅŸama kadar onlar? sulay?p okÅŸuyorum: Hat?rl?yorum, hat?rl?yorum ki unutmayay?m!

What you intended to forget tended to stick even more firmly in your mind.

I am only what I remember.

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember." - Valentine

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

Mas nesse momento, sua cabeça inclinada para trás, as folhas verdes e macias se movendo gentilmente na brisa quase imperceptível, sentiu um poderoso déjà-vu. Ele havia olhado para essas folhas antes. Recentemente. Mas isso era impossível. Não havia árvores grandes em Trondheim, e nenhuma crescia dentro do complexo de Milagre. Por que a luz do sol varando as folhas parecia-lhe tão familiar?

I am old enough now to have all the memories of my people locked within my head. I remember things that happened long before I was born. I remember things that never happened at all. I live in memory. –Anton

But it could wait until they got back. That was the nice thing about the past—it stayed right where you put it until you needed to pick it up again.

A human child loses almost all the memories of the first years of its life, and its long-term memories only take root in its second or third year of life; everything before that is lost, so that the child cannot remember the beginning of life.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

MISS PRISM Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

That was the most difficult thing about time travel, remembering where and when one was. She'd forgotten she wasn't still a servant and called Linna "ma'am" twice

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?' 'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.

What you put in your head is there forever.