The Forgetting Quotes

“The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you’ve done. When you will not remember who you are or what you’ve done.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It's one of the things I hold against it.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I am made of my memories.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“Today I found I'm not afraid of the unknown. Today I discovered that the unknown loved me, and that I loved it back.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“Because I dared.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I’m not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn’t keep pouring from the pitcher.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“Nadia," she says, very softly. I lean forward, straining to hear. Her expression has changed, drawn, as if in pain. "She's gone," she whispers. "The bed is empty."
"Who, Mother?"
"Nadia," she says again. "Her book is wrong. It's not Nadia's book." I know Mother. But it was only ever the book that was wrong. Not the daughter. Never the daughter.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn’t tell it, the Learning Room doesn’t teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I have lived my life so frightened of pain it’s been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I’ve eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I never imagined the unknown could be so beautiful.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“We are made of our memories.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“I want to claw my own skin and find out what's buried inside. I want to know who I've been”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting

“Why does every "now" have to be ruined by what will be?”
― Sharon Cameron, The Forgetting