“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”— Chinua Achebe
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”— Joan Didion
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”— Edward M. Kennedy
“The Holocaust is a dark secret, a secret that we will have to live with for a long time. I don't think it's an accident that we are now living in a time of great denial.”— Aharon Appelfeld
“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread.”— Conrad Aiken
“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind.”— Ernest Dowson
“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”— William Golding
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”— J. M. Barrie