Cynthia Heimel Quotes

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

Those whose deeds have once incurred our hatred, can never become entitled to our regard; nor can those who have once merited our affection ever after absolutely cancel their claim.

I don't think you can erase history.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

What happens to you here is forever.

Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

We can never go back.

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

Not to remember is not an option.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.