Ann Brashares Quotes

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

They would grow old. They would forget me.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

He was listening so I don't remember.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

I exist only in the past.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!