Memory

"From then on, Willy boasted that he had saved Eva's life - an indisputable fact which she herself admitted and for which she cursed him every day for thirty-seven years thereafter and would have cursed him for the rest of her life except by then she was already ninety years old and forgot things."

("Desde entonces, Willy se jactaba de haber salvado la vida de Eva - un hecho indiscutible que ella misma aceptaba y por el cual le maldijo cada día durante los treinta y siete años siguientes, y le hubiera seguido maldiciendo durante el resto de su vida si no fuera porque entonces ya tenía noventa años y se le olvidaban cosas.")

"It was as though he no longer needed to drink to forget whatever it was he could not remember. Now he could not remember that he had ever forgotten anything."

("Era como si ya no necesitara beber para olvidar lo que fuera que no podía recordar. Ahora ya no podía recordar haber olvidado nada.")

(Both quotes from Sula, by Toni Morrison. Traducciones caseras.)