Palimpsest Quotes
What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.68, Random House
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books
