Memory Fog Quotes

“I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house.
‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’
Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, I say, but it doesn’t mean it actually happened that way.
I wait for him to make eye contact, which he does.
‘You have a point, Junior,’ he says.’ You’re right.”
― Iain Reid, Foe

“People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the story for me to provide a reliable account.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy