And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it 
forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past 
to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you 
can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are.
Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is 
nothing to remember except the story.
                                                              -The Things They Carried