"Sometimes, even though it may hurt us, I think it’s best that we forget. Forgetting gives us relief. Forgetting gives us a chance to begin anew. We can’t grab hold of what could be until we abandon what could have been."

— Anonymous (via au-la)

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"The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer."

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via imfantasyparade)

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"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."

— Charles Bukowski (via salveo)

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"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Forgotten is forgiven."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It has taken me a while, but I’m learning that letting go of the past is a good thing. It doesn’t mean forgetting, it just means moving on. Because the fact is, we can’t enjoy the present, and embrace the future when we’re still stuck in the past."

— (via eletheowl)

"It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness."

— (via eletheowl)

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"If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets."

— Haruki Murakami

"I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"We survive by remembering, but maybe sometimes we survive by forgetting."

— (via She was a Hurricane.)

"I’ve never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart."

— Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel

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