“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”

“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”

“Staying true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.”

“And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?”

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.”

“We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.”