

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried

“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried

“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried

“Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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