“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”
“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.”
“For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
“Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.”
“Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”
“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”