“The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”

“Touch has a memory.”

“There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.”

“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”

“Emotion is the glue that causes memories to stick.”

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.”

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”

“To leave a good memory of oneself, one must earn a place in the memory of others.”

“Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)”