“The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man”
“The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.”
“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.”
“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.”
“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”
“Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.”