Quotes About Amnesiac

#1. When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. Yours is the only face I'm capable of seeing, the only face I want to see. All my life and knowledge, the whole world, is right there in your face, your brown eyes. You give cohesion to everything I know. Without you in my life, I'd be worse than an amnesiac.

Neha Yazmin

#3. Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.

Hilton Kramer

#4. Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.

Holly Black

#5. I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.

Steven Wright

#6. What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?

Bernard Beckett

#7. As you got older and time went on, you realized that the distinction between truth and fiction didn't really matter because eventually everything disappeared into the soupy, amnesiac mess of history. Personal or political, it made no difference.

Kate Atkinson

#8. He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac.

T. Greenwood

#9. In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Colin Greenwood

#10. In the back corner, a stairwell led down. It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. Percy wondered what was down there - monsters? Treasure? Amnesiac demigods who had gotten on Reyna's bad side?

Rick Riordan

#11. You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.

Ally Carter

#12. All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord Brightlingsea was swept through life on a steady amnesiac flow.

Edith Wharton

#13. America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

Henry Giroux

#14. The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

Sharon Begley

#15. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

Thom Yorke

#17. Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust.

Jonathan Dunne

#18. A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Mary Astor

#19. There's no other way to describe how I feel. I know that the way I think about her and feel about her is wrong, but I struggle so much with how right it feels when I'm with her.

Colleen Hoover

#20. But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.

Sam Taylor

#21. Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Jean Piaget

#22. My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

PJ Harvey

#23. Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#24. I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

Zig Ziglar

#25. I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#26. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Gabrielle Zevin

#27. I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

Ron Wyden

#28. You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.

Gabrielle Zevin

#29. School is a foretaste of life.

Georg Brandes

#30. If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Dave Eggers

#31. People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another?

Sam Taylor

#32. I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast. The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I'm afraid I won't be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep.

Christoph Niemann

#33. I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman

Gabrielle Zevin

#34. But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Gabrielle Zevin

#35. He found her utterly fascinating, a nameless, homeless, naked vampire, sleeping away the day in his bed, wanted by state and federal police.

Travis Luedke

#36. To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.

S. Fitts

#37. On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

Sharon Bolton

#38. Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live ... in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Anatole Broyard