“There were some feelings you never forgot.”
“When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. ”
“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.”
“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”
“Christ, I forgot how fucking good you feel when you're beneath me.”
“I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let menot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.”