“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.” FacesMemoriesIdentityUniqueClaimsOneselfShrinksCatching Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.” ThinkingMaySelfMomentsSeemsMemoriesOneselfNeverthelessInsignificantInner Self Book:An autobiography Source: An autobiography
“Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.” SchoolMemoriesEmotionFamilyHigh SchoolAccountsOneselfTensionAwkwardReunionEmbers Author:Anita Shreve