The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

Rivers are lucky. They can only move forward.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why. But look here, don't carry it inside and don't give it to nobody else. Try to understand it, but if you can't, just forget it and keep yourself strong, man.

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.