“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”
“There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.”
“Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.”
“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.”
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”