Brian Freeman > Quotes

“The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.”
― Brian Freeman, Infinite

“everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Once you saw someone die, you were never the same. A body always left its mark. Katie”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“However, memories—unlike reality—aren’t fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can’t distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“It had been raining for hours, one of those endless fall rains that sucked all the color out of the world and turned your life into a black-and-white movie.”
― Brian Freeman, Thief River Falls

“Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who’d never grown up.”
― Brian Freeman, Thief River Falls

“Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be,”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Let me guess,” I said. “This is about Schrödinger’s cat.” “I’m impressed, Dylan,” she replied with a smile. “Hey, I watched The Big Bang Theory.”
― Brian Freeman, Infinite

“Some spyware programs have ambient listening features. They can turn on the microphone of your phone without you knowing it and without leaving any record.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“You do what you have to do. You make the tough choices, because no one else will.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“All my life, I’d been hurrying to get somewhere, without the slightest idea where that was.”
― Brian Freeman, Infinite

“You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Someone’s praying for my soul again.” “Well, you and me need all the help we can get,” Virgil replied. “I figure I’m on the smite list if God gets bored.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“It’s about how we’re all part of an infinite number of parallel worlds. Every time we make a choice, a carbon copy of ourselves makes the opposite choice in a different universe.”
― Brian Freeman, Infinite

“I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over,”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Lisa hit him and ran."
"She hit him?" Laurel asked sharply. "is Curtis okay?"
Denis dismissed her concerns with a wave of his walking stick. "Oh, please. He's a farmer. Farmers are indestructible. The man could stick his face in a thresher and not even need a bandage. He'll be fine.”
― Brian Freeman, Thief River Falls

“For the first time in a long time, she had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Her life was a white room. She felt like one of her patients who came out of her treatments and suddenly had an emptiness in their brain where something horrible had been. They’d faced their fears, but they always asked her what to do next. She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“You see, there are moments in your life you are desperate to take back as soon as they happen, but the clock ticks, and they’re gone. You make your choice, and an instant later, nothing is the same.”
― Brian Freeman, Infinite

“Jason hadn’t made things better. Another man might have tried to crack her shell and draw her back to him. Jason didn’t. He buried himself in his lab and waited for her to fix herself.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“My characterization influences your brain.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“The drunk Gen Xers danced fast, as if they were still young, but she knew they’d wake up, roll out of bed, and groan at the ache in their knees.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“I told him I was sorry that the woman was gone, that it was brave of him to want to protect her, but there was nothing he could do anymore.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“His father, on the other hand, had never met a pause he didn’t need to fill,”
― Brian Freeman, The Voice Inside

“His friend smiled. “You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“Don’t ask for help. Don’t need anyone else, because they won’t be there for you.”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird

“everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were. Would you ever want to change that?”
― Brian Freeman, The Night Bird