“there was a time when these weren't memories.”

“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”

“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

“Time's the thief of memory”

“The work of memory collapses time.”

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

“Time is just memory
Mixed in with Desire.”

“It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.”