Mara

“You spend your life hoarding memories against the day you'll lack the energy to go out and make new ones, because that's the comfort of the old age. The ability to look back at your life and know that you left your mark on the world. But I'm losing my memories, it's like someone's broken into my piggy bank and is robbing me one penny at a time. It's happening so slowly, I can hardly tell what's missing.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we were before we became who we are.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Physicists have theorized that we live in an infinite and infinitely expanding universe, and that everything in it will eventually repeat.
There are infinite copies of your mom and your dad and your clothes-stealing little sister. There are infinite copies of you.
Despite what you've spent your entire life believing, you are not a special snowflake. Somewhere out there, another you is living your life. Chances are, they're living it better.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants