Deirdre

“The valley of regrets can pull you down into its quicksand bottom: it’s best not to linger there.”
― Sara Paretsky, Dead Land

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“He must have thought she was too young to remember. But children remember everything. It’s adults who forget.”
― Emma Knight, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus