Curtained Memory

Famous quotes containing the words curtained and/or memory:

“Now o’er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtained sleep.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again—but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.”
—Paule Marshall (b. 1929)