Quotes About Recollection

I suppose if we forgot stuff we'll never know we forgot it, because we won't remember

Another clue that we are in a flashback occurs when we notice that our emotional reactions are out of proportion to what has triggered them.

At that moment, Ingrid remembered 'The Five Orange Pips' and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

How do biblical writers talk about the past?

Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

He was aggregating memory like a wall against extinction and the little boxes of slides were his bricks.

Distantly recall. Standing there with a smile of triumph and his scruffy week old beard. I swear. I start to laugh. That's what he does to me: aggravate me all the way to the point of laughter.