Hide the Elephant Quotes

“My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what’s the point if I can’t remember where my feet are, let alone my footsteps...”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“The only time we stopped having nightmares was while we slept.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“I don’t believe he was made in China, but I do believe he is disposable.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“And that’s the best thing about this crazy journey: I am forgetting that I’m an old man instead of the Alzheimer’s reminding me by forgetting”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“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, Hide the Elephant

“I try to dig deep into my memory vault but my memory fault is all I find.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“Humour is my best defence, so humour me.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“I hadn’t realized that Sinbad had gone and come back to my memory. The memory fail sneaks in and out without me knowing.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“The last thing people are expecting to see is an elephant and they don’t see it when it’s really there. It brings me to the conclusion that I haven’t seen half of what’s going on right under my nose.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

“I’m not comparing Gloria to an Indian elephant, but she was just as big in my life”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant