“Memories are forever.”

“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”

“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

“It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.”

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”

“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”