“To remember is sometimes to suffer, but to forget would be to lose again what we once possessed.” Exploring the painful but precious connection between memory and loss. · Journal Grief Loss Memory
“There are moments when the past seems more real than the present, because memory gives it a permanence that life cannot possess.” Reflecting on the strange permanence created by memory. · Journal Memory Past Time
“The memory of happiness is happiness itself, and sometimes the memory is all that remains to us.” Considering memory as a form of continuing consolation after happiness has passed. · Journal Happiness Loss Memory
“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” Reflecting on the lasting force of early friendship and memory · Introduction to Frankenstein, 1831 Childhood Friendship Memory
