“Do not allow me to forget you”

“The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting.”

“The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.”

“Shooting with his camera the animals tha they did not allow him to kill with his rifle .”

“I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth, because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone, you dress and perfume yourself for someone, and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”

“Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.”

“Let's forget about each other forever," she told him. "we're too old for this sort of thing now.”