4 Quotes by Anthony Doerr about memory


  • Author Anthony Doerr
  • Quote

    Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying territory that seems to them entirely new. They push back the darkness; they scatter memories behind them like bread crumbs. The world is remade.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Anthony Doerr
  • Quote

    Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Anthony Doerr
  • Quote

    Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary

  • Tags
  • Share