Angel’s Reviews > The Memory Police > Status Update

"'I suppose memories live here and there in the body, but they're invisible, aren't they? And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed'" (Ogawa, 231).

"It's disturbing to see things that have disappeared, like tossing something hard and thorny into a peaceful pond. It sets up ripples, stirs up a whirlpool below, throws up mud from the bottom" (Ogawa, 147).