"There's no me without you."

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made."
- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
- Emily Dickinson, Time & Eternity (1924)

"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing."
- Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), Spanish film director

"When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too - leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

"Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been."
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (2001)

"Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
- Kevin Arnold

"I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now."
- Sophia Loren

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
- William Faulkner (1867-1962)

'"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" - says my pride, and remains adamant. At last - memory yields."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

"Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be."
- Bob Dylan

"For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain."
- Lyster

"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features."
- Primo Levi

"Memories are all we really own."
- Elias Lieberman

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."
- Jean Paul Richter

"But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another."
- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)