26 Quotes by Brian Freeman

Don’t ask for help. Don’t need anyone else, because they won’t be there for you.

You do what you have to do. You make the tough choices, because no one else will.

For the first time in a long time, she had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Her life was a white room. She felt like one of her patients who came out of her treatments and suddenly had an emptiness in their brain where something horrible had been. They’d faced their fears, but they always asked her what to do next. She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

However, memories – unlike reality – aren’t fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can’t distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.

Jason hadn’t made things better. Another man might have tried to crack her shell and draw her back to him. Jason didn’t. He buried himself in his lab and waited for her to fix herself.

My characterization influences your brain.

She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

Once you saw someone die, you were never the same. A body always left its mark. Katie.