“I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.”

“I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.”

“I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box…”

“Surplus matter. I'd forgotten all about that phrase, those classes—even before the accident, I mean. After the accident I forgot everything. It was as though my memories were pigeons and the accident a big noise that had scared them off. They fluttered back eventually—but when they did, their hierarchy had changed, and some that had had crappy places before ended up with better ones: I remembered them more clearly; they seemed more important.”

“I had been too long away from the nobility; I had forgotten how silly even the best of them could be.”

“I heard the sighing of the reeds
At noontide and at evening,
And some old dream I had forgotten
I seemed to be remembering.”

“Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important.”

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”

“She woke up and realized she had forgotten the definition of the word ‘impossible.’ She decided it must not have been that important.”