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

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

(Source: quote-book)

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

— Charles Bukowski (via salveo)

(via quote-book)

"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.)