“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.”

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”

“In the Ebbinghaus curve, or forgetting curve, R stands for memory retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time. The power of a memory can be built through repetition, but it is the memory we are recalling when we speak, not the event. And stories are annealed in the telling, edited by turns each time they are recalled...People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.”

“The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of hiswords.”

“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”