"Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193"

-- Craig Clevenger

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Way Quotes

“Every man is his own greatest dupe.”
“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
“It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.”
“Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.”
“Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.”
“I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”
“We are turning our grief into winnable actions.”
“... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.”

Source : Sharon Olds, “The Sash”

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