Memory Wall

by Anthony Doerr

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”

It’s the rarest thing, Luvo thinks, that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.

We go round the world only to come back again.

But now I know life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours but the world will never run out of life. And we’re all very lucky to be part of something like that.