Jennifer Dowell

“Memory is the happiness of being alone.”
― Lois Lowry, Anastasia Krupnick

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain