How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don't appear at the time as knowledge at all. (9.61)
The past isn't entirely faulty and unreliable—we also have moments of clarity when we look back upon it.
Quote #8
"I try to remember, I was fun, and I can be fun again. But I keep finding myself unable to do that." (14.167)
Dennis hits on a crucial philosophy here: We can't actually return to the past, even if we think it was better; all we can do is try to match it as closely as possible, bolster ourselves forward with it. Even if it never really works.
Quote #9
Though Dennis hadn't gone to the camp, he had willingly been educated in its lore over the decades. It sometimes seemed to her that Dennis had gone there. (17.76)
Is it possible to end up in someone else's memories? Like if someone told you over and over again about some past event or place, would you start to feel like the memory was your own?