Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.