History Lessons Quotes

“In a sense our brains are like an archive, where material is well-preserved and properly catalogued, but also dissolves, or becomes re-shelved or misplaced, or in some cases never makes it there to begin with.”
― Clifton Crais, History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, and the Brain

“The familial narratives that are so important to who we are and to how the past is handed from one generation to the next disappeared, including those that remained untold until now. I forgot because so much was being forgotten.”
― Clifton Crais, History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, and the Brain