“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
“People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.”
— Robin McKinley, book Spindle's End
Source: Spindle's End
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