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Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Holly Black
Memories, Lying, Flower
Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.23, Hachette UK

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

Holly Black
Memories, Giving, People
Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

Holly Black
Memories, Climbing, Dying
Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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