“The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because I thought I’d forget. Then I knew that was ridiculous and cried because I remembered. But the truth is that one is the same as the other. Remembering and forgetting are the same bloody thing. He is not alive any more. That’s all there is to know. There is no purpose to any of it. The point is there is no point.”
