“...you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...”

“When you fall in Love with someone, you can never imagine being without them. But when you fall in Love a second time, you can never imagine you were with them in the first place. Though Love continues on in the heart, the brain often forgets.”

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

“Even though you're disappointed, you didn't forget to still love him, did you?”

“Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.”