"I still see her wordless mouth," the narrator remembers Joaquin saying.

The narrator remembers everything he saw and felt at those times.

The narrator, a now remarried mother of several children, remembers the way she parented her first child, Emily.

The narrator remembers this but also comments, "It is the type of belief that bright young graduate students were collecting."

Nature becomes a comforter, but the narrator remembers his loneliness during childhood.

The present action stops for a while as the character (or, worse yet, the narrator) remembers some key event from days of yore.

The narrator remembers one of the cat's stories in particular, namely the one that follows.

Among the incidents from childhood the narrator remembers is a childhood crush.

The narrator does not remember how he ended up living in the Warsaw sewers.

After time the narrator becomes in love with his wife and is constantly remembering the elderly woman whom which he had once lived with.