The Last Conversation Quotes

“To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself. But how could one lose something as expansive as an ocean in a dusty corner of one’s mind? What if, instead, to forget is to open a door to a void; the memory is not retrievable because it is not there, was never there.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself. But how could one lose something as expansive as an ocean in a dusty corner of one’s mind?”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“You attempt to sit up, contracting your stomach muscles and pushing off the bed, your weight held up by elbows and hands. Sharp, electric pain splits you down the length of your spine and radiates into your tremulous limbs. You cry out. The pain is incapacitating, all-consuming, setting off white jagged flashes in your vision and then taking root inside your head. The pain is a giant wave that threatens to wash you away.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“as you lose yourself in the undeniable pleasure of remembering. It is a pleasure because you have images now associated with these memories. The disjointed way in which the images appear in your head feels natural, authentic. While you can’t know if these images are actual memories or embellishments, or a little of both, it doesn’t matter. They are yours. They belong to you and they branch away into an infinite network of new ones. These memories are proof of you,”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“You are aware that everyone experiences some form of auditory dissociation upon hearing their own voice, the feeling of Do I really sound like that? You understand the tone and pitch of the voice you hear when you speak are determined by the mix of air conduction and sounds traveling directly to your cochlea via the tissues in your own head. But should your recorded voice sound so different as to be unrecognizable? Shouldn’t there be an underlying cadence or rhythm, one that identifies you as the speaker?”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“You lose yourself in the undeniable pleasure of
remembering.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“You lose yourself in the undeniable pleasure of remembering.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“These memories are proof of you”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“You wonder if time is a phantom because it feels like you walked for longer than thirty minutes. You wonder if she is lying to you.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“the first treadmill was invented by a man in nineteenth-century England. Its purpose was to punish and break its prisoners. You quoted a prison guard named James Hardie, who once wrote of the treadmill: “monotonous steadiness, and not its severity, which constitutes its terror.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“There were times when we were all those things. Right now, we’re partners.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation