Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses — would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? – Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. – Michel de Montaigne

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner