Date: 2015

"'Sorry to disappoint you, but me,' Byrdie said, raising his hand. 'I think I have whiplash of the brain.'"

— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)

Date: 2015

"'Yes, our brains are like Swiss cheese,' he added, sort of undermining his compliment after the fact."

— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)

Date: 2018

"As that word left a greasy trail through his skull, he saw her."

— Hermione Hoby

Date: 2018

"His mind was a synthetic sky: blue, blank, cloudless."

— Hermione Hoby

Date: June 18, 2018

"Her brain was in overdrive."

— Wang, Weike

Date: 2024

"She reminds me of someone but my mind won't let me flick through the files and find out who."

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

Date: 2024

"I wish I could explain to him that I don't want to think about her any more, but thinking about her is not a choice; that--even though Jen is no longer in my physical life--the room inside my mind that has been occupied by her for the last four years still exists. I want to convert it to a home ...

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

Date: 2024

"Sometimes I wake up and the first thing I think of if Jen, and I imagine the tiny version of her in a doll's house bedroom in my brain and I'm comforted by Imaginary Jen who wants to keep my company for a little bit longer."

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)