How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
A minute or so later, Ma emerged from the burning house, sobbing, clutching [her photo album] against her chest. (2.18)
Looking at photos is one of the best ways to jog your memory. They're like memory in paper form. And before photos were in the cloud (ready to be hacked), they had to be stored in albums. Ma is willing to risk her life to save her album from a burning building; it's like her memories themselves are at stake.
Quote #2
As for me, my memories are fragments—sounds and sensations that may have more to do with my mother's retelling of the story than with any electrical firings in my own brain. (2.299)
Which memories are yours and which are just other people's memories, memories where you're just remembering the story and not the actual event itself?
Quote #3
Thomas and I are going to the movies with Ma (5.1)
Chapter 5 shifts into a present-tense point of view, an interesting choice for a chapter set thirty years in the past. By talking about his memories in this way, Dominick makes them seem a lot more immediate, as though he's reliving them, not just retelling them.