“Gotta always remember where you came from and how you got brought to where you is now. They call it deliverance.”

“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”

“I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”

“It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going”

“What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.”

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”