Date: 1860
"The early days of an acquaintance almost always have this importance for us, and fill up a larger space in our memory than longer subsequent periods which have been less filled with discovery and new impressions."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1938
Travel may "put a stopper on those memories you would like to resurrect. It does not always work, of course, sometimes the scent is too strong for the bottle, and too strong for me. And then the devil in one, like a furtive peeping Tom, tries to draw the cork."
preview | full record— Du Maurier, Daphne, Lady Browning (1907-1989)
Date: 1938
"'If only there could be an invention,' I said impulsively, 'that bottled up a memory, like a scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.'"
preview | full record— Du Maurier, Daphne, Lady Browning (1907-1989)
Date: 1999
"'How do you expect to learn anything when you fill your mind with garbage?' he said."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: 2011
"And the wind will be dirty in his hair, and there will be no decent place left in his heart because in all this chasing nothing he will have scrubbed it out, scrubbed it hollow, and nothing can fill it back up but words he makes as beautiful as he can."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"Clean out my heart, you know? It's like a crowded old garage. It needs emptying and sorting."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie