It's a protein thing.
Memory is.
The way it works, way it leaves its fingerprints, way the brain encodes it: indiscriminately. It's been proven we remember better when we're feeling strong emotions. Like pictures snapped in bright light, bright conditions, extra vivid, coded neuronally with the added oomph of anger horror fear despair or hope. Or love. Always go for love. Pray you've saved those memories of love.
-Marianne Wiggins
Almost Heaven
