"After a blackout, all you have to do is keep on not knowing. If you can't remember, you hope you never remember. You indulge your selective amnesia. You operate under the philosophy I dont think, therefore I am."

Personally, Smashed is becoming one of my most favorite books. :)
It's also teaching much about how from her own experience that things happen, most often things happen for a reason. And even if in that moment, it's not what you wished to have happened. Later on, it will on make sense. Anyways, this quote confused me. I mean..don't you want to remember most things? And not just forget them. I mean those are memories, whether you wanted them to happen or not. They did, you can't do anything to change that. And not remembering a memory (blacking out) would scare me. I would want to remember, not just wish to forget. And that philosophy makes no sense whatsoever to me...If you don't think, than how do you know what you are? I mean you need to think to know what you are. So therefore...what do they mean "I am"? You are what exactly?

My question would be: "If you forget certain memories of your life, than does that mean you forget what made you who you are today?"

"They make me convinced that life as we know it is some kind of purgatory; in which everyone suffers and is punished, and every one of us is licking her wounds."