“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
Quoted in "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures" - Page 74 - by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac - 2006
“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
Cynthia Lord (1950) American children's writer
Source: Touch Blue
“People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.”
J. G. Ballard book Cocaine Nights
"Bobby Crawford"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis