“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”

“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.”

“Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.”

“Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”

“You have to eat before you drink! If you remember nothing else I've said tonight, remember to eat before you drink!”

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”

“This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.”