She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she fe… - Jhumpa Lahiri

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said.

The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity’s pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven.

Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding his resume in the bin. She confessed that Dimitri had gone with her to Palm Beach. One by one he stored the pieces of information in his mind, unwelcome, unforgivable. And for the first time in his life, another man's name upset Gogol more than his own.