Mona

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories