Alek

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses