Quotes About Recollection

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice.

You broke the Madden brothers. I remember them, Joesph, and I remember what you did to them.

No one remembers the language they took in high school.

She acts like we don't remember, like there's some way I am ever going to forget. She acts like it's her personal tragedy and hers alone.

Los niños no somos olvidadizos.

True love rules especially through memory.

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

What was the actual benefit of accuracy when it came to memories?

But Nick was Nick. He knew what she meant when she said, "Oh my dosh." They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same place; they could begin a million conversations with "Do you remember when . . .";

I wish my memories would blur a bit,' Savannah had said, looking into her glass. 'I remember everything. The details never fade.

Never forgive. Never forget. That's my motto.

What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after.

My mind has circled back again to that conversation with Helen on the steps of Schermerhorn about how each culture has a flavor. What she said that night comes back to me at least once a day. Have I ever said anything to anyone that has come back once a day for 8 years?

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.

a flat. Rishworth, I think he said. I wasn't

REQUIRED TO TAKE A COMBINATION OF GINKGO AND VIAGRA, SO YOU CAN REMEMBER WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING.

My life's memories take up space with no regard to when they happened, or to their actual time span. The memories of brief incidents occupy almost all time, while years of my life have left no tract. -- spoken by Astrid

Memory takes root only half in the folds of the brain: half's in the concrete streets we have lived along.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.

There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils.

The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.