“…when something is gone but not forgotten, melancholy must linger on, especially when the dreamer does not want to forget. —Robert Kroetsch to Martann -------, 1947 (age 20)”
Source: Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
“Kalau aku boleh meminta, aku ingin melupa semuanya dan membiarkannya berlalu bersama asap ini. Sejenak, aku ingin tenang. Aku menang.”
Source: Februari: Ecstasy
“And what part of me will begin
To forget you first; the sudden
Pains that shoot to my bruised palms
As I think of you in the cover of the dark,
Or the invisible hand
Clutching at my heart, as it knocks against its savage cage,
Or my still swollen lips
As they remember the touch of your gentle fingertips?”
Source: Those Imperfect Strokes
“The dream was haunting me: standing behind me, present and yet invisible, like the back of my head, simultaneously there and not there.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“And as for the people you loved, even their names will escape you. Did you not mean what you said when you said, I will love you forever? You did. Though now it's hard to remember . . .”
Source: Hologram Lp
“If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
“...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning”
“We Will Remember Them - Lest we Forget”
“To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?”
Source: The Story of Forgetting
“There was a time when I wished it would stop, when I tried to forget, but forgetting took such strength it was easier to accept you were a missing part of me and get on with life.”
Source: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy