There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected t….

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory..

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss..

Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was fo….

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear.….

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time..

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when….

I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good….

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories….

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is n….

I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shif….

It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only ….

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock an….

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that mak….

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eatin….

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and e….

That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't ….

The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they ….

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The wareh….

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory..

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's ….