
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
Source: Blue Nights
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), When I Come Home
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
Source: Blue Nights
“There were some memories, though, that never faded.”
Variant: There were some feelings you never forgot.
Source: City of Bones
“Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past.”
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XLIII (p. 224)
Major Richard Sharpe (describing his murdered wife, Teresa Moreno) p. 339
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)