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Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

memories, memory

Catherynne M. Valente

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

memories, memory

Shannon Wiersbitzky

Memories are powerful that way. They can bring a person back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.

memories, memory

But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.

memories, memory

He had managed to lock away everything he didn’t want to remember… and the memories returned as well.

memories, memory

I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That’s where the misunderstanding starts: they don’t, have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don’t intersect.

memories, memory

We humans are different–our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

memories, memory

Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

memories, memory

Catherynne M. Valente

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

memories, memory

Shannon Wiersbitzky

Memories are powerful that way. They can bring a person back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.

memories, memory

But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.

memories, memory

I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That’s where the misunderstanding starts: they don’t, have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don’t intersect.

memories, memory