An Abundance of Katherines Memory and the Past Quotes

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Quote #10

"And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees—breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you." (19.91)

Eureka—Colin finally realizes his memories have a story of their own. His memory becomes what happened between him and the Katherines, because he has nothing else to go on, and that's exactly why he shouldn't put too much stock in them. They aren't real or true, and they can change over time.