The Museum of Human History Quotes

“How, when you curate the past, you change it. The story you tell becomes the story that's told and everything untold is lost. It's better than having no story at all, he supposes.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“She pulled him back to shore, and it felt like a cosmic revelation: waking up to hear that he existed in someone else's memory. It was all that one could hope for.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“We disappear so many times before we do, finally, disappear.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“All space is negative space once the subject is gone.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“The human body was so horribly fleeting. And the glass case of memory, it just leaked and distorted the past it was meant to contain.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“Imagination was so close to memory. When you pictured the future hard enough, it could feel like the past.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“Time is a piece of dust landing in a girl's left eye while she is riding a bicycle.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“In those first years at the museum, he felt like he had finally done this; slipped inside a closed fridge. He was there, in the dark world of objects. He could hold his breath in this suspended animation, feeling as though he were another object, some simple artifact from someone else's past, and that now he must wait patiently for the door to open and the lights to turn on and a visitor to find her way in.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History

“Luke had imagined, dumbly, that there would be a way to see the whole thing as if from very high up. But you can never see the whole of anything you're still inside of.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History