“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

“It took me many years not to make arrogant distinctions between good and bad.”

“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”

“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught.”

“No: that fear had been inside him for manyyears, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over hisown shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream,and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as hehad always believed, but an immediate reality.”