“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my memory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is st…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I wonder how it’s possible to forget a face. I wonder how you can forget the sound of someone’s voice or the way they tasted against your lips, even though you swore to yourself you’d always remember.”— Stephanie Walker, thoughtcatalog.com
“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Because I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me.”— John Green, Chip, amazon.com
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”— Eva Hoffman, goodreads.com
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”— Paulo Coelho, goodreads.com