Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

by Haruki Murakami

‘You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.’ Sara looked directly into his eyes. ‘If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.’

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.’