“Tom Ripley: Don't you just take the past, and put it in a room in the basement, and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. Peter: God, yes. Though in my case, it's probably a whole building.”— Anthony Minghella, Tom Ripley, Matt Damon, imdb.com
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”— Lewis B. Smedes, amazon.com
“I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn’t be you.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“The destiny of those who forget the lessons of history is a painful recurrence.”— florin hilbay, twitter.com