Selective memory Quotes

“Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.”

“Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.”

“The camera's greedy lens sucks my image through it and splashes my pixilated ghost across his face in pale blue light.”

“The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.”

“I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse”