The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

Rick Yancey
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  1. Few things are more deceptive than memories. - Unknown

  2. If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them... - Cassandra Clare

  3. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind... - Ralph Alfred Habas

  4. We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember. - Ian Bates

  5. The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost... - Paul Auster

More Quotes By Rick Yancey
  1. People die. Love endures.

  2. We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

  3. Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

  4. But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to...

  5. You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

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