The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa
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“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
“Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.”
“My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”
“A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense.”
“But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow. I suppose that kept things in balance.”
“I don’t know. Maybe there’s a place out there where people whose hearts aren’t empty can go on living.”
“In general,” he continued, “most things you worry about end up being no more than that—just worries.”
“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.”
“Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.”
“His soul is too dense. If he comes out, he'll dissolve into pieces, like a deep-sea fish pulled to the surface too quickly. I suppose my job is to go on holding him here at the bottom of the sea.”
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