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1 " everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were. "
― Brian Freeman , The Night Bird (Frost Easton, #1)
2 " Once you saw someone die, you were never the same. A body always left its mark. Katie "
3 " Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, "
4 " 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. "
5 " The drunk Gen Xers danced fast, as if they were still young, but she knew they’d wake up, roll out of bed, and groan at the ache in their knees. "
6 " You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are. "
7 " I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened. "
8 " She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new. "
9 " I told him I was sorry that the woman was gone, that it was brave of him to want to protect her, but there was nothing he could do anymore. "
10 " It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary. "
11 " Someone’s praying for my soul again.” “Well, you and me need all the help we can get,” Virgil replied. “I figure I’m on the smite list if God gets bored. "
12 " In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over, "
13 " My characterization influences your brain. "
14 " What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people? "
15 " Don’t ask for help. Don’t need anyone else, because they won’t be there for you. "
16 " You do what you have to do. You make the tough choices, because no one else will. "
17 " 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. "
18 " His friend smiled. “You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are. "
19 " everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were. Would you ever want to change that? "
20 " 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. "
