“There's no such thing as forgetting. No matter how hard you try, you only think you've forgotten, and over time the things you think you have forgotten emerge again under another guise and tear into your soul. Understand this: whoever says they have forgotten have merely condemned themselves to an endless repetition of the same event until the end of their lives.”
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“Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines.”
“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”
“What the waking and the healthy seem to have forgotten, the sleeping and the sick remember.”
“Forgetting you is not easy for me, Death is easier for me than Forgetting you.”
“I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.”