Memory Wall Quotes.

1. "To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

2. "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."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

3. "Don't tell me how to grieve. Don't tell me ghosts fade away eventually, like they do in movies, waving goodbye with see-through hands. Lots of things fade away but ghosts like these don't, heartbreak like these doesn't."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

4. "Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

5. "Why, Esther wonders, do any of us believe our lives lead outward through time? How do we know we aren't continually traveling inward, toward our centers? Because this is how it feels to Esther when she sits on her deck in Geneva, Ohio, in the last spring of her life; it feels as if she is being drawn down some path that leads deeper inside, toward a miniature, shrouded, final kingdom that has waited within her all along."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

6. "Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113"
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

7. "I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

8. "The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

9. "It is the rarest thing...that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

10. "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."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall