"One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities."

"Living without detail long-term memories allowed for spontaneity and lack of regret, but after a certain amount of time had passed, they needed more."

"With history, with memory, with retellings, people often settled for the obvious answer."

"History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend to it."