You cant learn everything you need to know legally. — John Irving

"Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory."

"He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that theres no one else around you whos enough like yourself to understand you.""

"Imagining something is better than remembering something."

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

"But we are not known for our ability to follow through on our unearned discoveries. We are top-of-the-water adventurers, who limit our opinions of the icebergs to what we can see."

"Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"