Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr

"To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour."  "Memory Wall"  p. 42

"Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering."   "Memory Wall" p. 71