“Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself...”
“Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.”
“If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”
“Love is motion Potter love is forward movement but you said yourself the memory reel backward it's all backward with you. You are stuck back there because Potter you don't let yourself move forward your eyes get stuck on things and people.”
“What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.”
“I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. ”