ShinyCheetah

You're right, but still... "He didn’t remember love, but he did remember attraction." - and in the same chapter about Navani: "He could vividly remember desiring her. Thinking about her, captivated by the way she talked, the things she knew, the look of her hands as she sketched—or, storms, as she did something as simple as raising a spoon to her lips. He remembered staring at her." Since this hasn't changed much over time, i'd say he was in love with Navani all the time while maybe trying to use Evi as a distraction. Is a distraction a reason to go to the Nightwatcher? That would fit considering how Dalinar is characterized in his flashback chapters...

I think we are focusing way too much on Evi herself. Most of us assume that Dalinar wanted his pain about her death taken away, don't we? Well, this chapter he confirmed again that he didn't even really love her. We had that other Blackthorn memory where he kills a woman and a child (probably). He's also used to the brutality of war. I really wonder what exactly it was that he wanted to forget. What could he have done that would make the Blackthorn go such extremes because he just can't deal with it on his own? And about why his memories are returning: while reading the chapter, I started wondering if maybe this is not really about Dalinar at all, but something larger. Could something have happened to the Nightwatcher? It would be really interesting to know if there's anyone with a boon/curse around who does or does not experience the same thing: slowly losing their boon/curse (maybe a Taravangian pov? ^^). I love this ^^ Brandon Sanderson is so good at making us speculate and guess without leaving us completely in the dark without proper clues... Though I guess the answer to my first question - what exactly made Dalinar go to the Nightwatcher - will be left to the very end of the book, like the Shallan-killed-her-mother-because-she-wanted-to-kill-her reveal in WoR.