Kiersten

“We think our memories are pure and uncorrupted, but this is a delusion. Every time we access a memory we rebuild it. Every time it’s rebuilt, things are added and things are lost. In fact, the more we remember something, the less resemblance that memory bears to the original event. We know that memory is fallible—or we know it, but we don’t really believe it. If someone says we remembered something wrong, we argue over it! We fight for the honor of our memories. Maybe it’s like religion, or love. The more flimsy something is, the more fiercely we believe in it.”
― Jo Harkin, Tell Me an Ending

“Most people can see the writing on the wall, even if they can’t always read what it says.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“The problem with thinking about forgetting things is that it always makes you think about the things you want to forget.”
― Jo Harkin, Tell Me an Ending

“She saw this in the US after every school shooting: a flurry of news stories, the sanctimonious tweets about thoughts and prayers, the predictable calls for gun control reform and then—silence. Parents and other survivors were left to their private lifelong grief, permanently out of step with a world that had moved on. Bloodstains were scrubbed from school walls before the students returned.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor