“We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.”
More from S. J. Watson
“It’s so difficult, isn’t it? To see what’s going on when you’re in the absolute middle of…”
“Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go…”
“As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did…”
“I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.”