“Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.”

“If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.”

“No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

“And what did I think
when I was small
and why did I forget?

And what else will I forget
when I grow older?

And if you forget
is it as if
it never happened?

Will none of the things
you saw or thought or dreamed
matter?”

“You were never what I wanted to forget.”

“Well…… That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.”

“What was seen can never be unseen, and I will never forget it, nor will I forgive it.”

“If I forgot what I have not been, I would forget myself.”

“To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.”

“That,' I said, 'would be a blessing. There are so many things I'd like to forget I hardly know what would be left standing, if I ever got started.”