Tammy

“memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there’s a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable, or else they turn into the big, bleak, white nothing I get in my head when I try to focus on that night.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time