In Denial Quotes

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Truth is only harsh if you're unable to face it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Stop it. Learn to take things at face value. You're always looking for what's not there.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“I had meant to take her to my favorite pastry shop after dinner. I'd known happiness there once, or maybe not happiness, but the vision of it. I wanted to see whether the place had changed at all, or whether I had changed, or whether, just by sitting with her I could make up for old loves I'd gotten so close to but had never been bold enough to seize. Always got so very close, and always turned my back when the time came. Manfred and I had dessert here so many times, especially after the movies, and before Manfred, Maud and I, because it was so hot on summer nights that we'd stop to drink fizzy lemonades here, night after night, happy to be together drinking nothing stronger. And Chloe, of course, on those cold afternoons on Rivington Street so many years ago. My life, my real life, had not even happened yet, and all of this was rehearsal still. Tonight, I thought, relishing Joyce's words and feeling exquisitely sorry for myself, the time has come for me to set out on my journey westward. Then I thought of Saint Augustine's words: "Sero te amavi! Late have I loved you!”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“You daren't think, so you live in a dream.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Honest people will always be hated, not because they are incorrect (they may be exactly right), but because some loathe truth and its agents.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Mary did not believe in analysing herself, and she had left vague the notion that sometimes came to her that this anxious unfulfilled sort of loving was the only kind of which she was capable.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“If Buddhists think evil is unreal they must be mad! Thinking evil is unreal is holding hands with evil under the table!”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Some of the facts we are denying we were told by our very own eyes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whenever golden boughs spring from rotting tree trunks, mortal man has great difficulty in accepting their provenance. And yet the evidence of their eyes presents the blinding truth.”
― Stewart Stafford

“NO one from Bill Cosby’s family was by his side in court [for the sentencing]. Not his children, not Camille. But Camille was still vocal and outraged. In fact, the week before, she had hand delivered an ethics complaint about Judge O’Neill to the state’s Judicial Conduct Board. Her complaint claimed that O’Neill had a grudge with Castor dating back to 1999 when they both ran for district attorney and O’Neill dated a woman in Castor’s office.
She also called O’Neill “arrogant,” “corrupt,” and “unethical” and revealed she’d hired a retired FBI agent to investigate the judge.”
― Nicole Weisensee Egan, Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad

“Camille Cosby released a statement of her own. In it she lashed out at the media, at Steele, and at the entire prosecution team. She compared her husband’s case to that of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 Mississippi after being falsely accused of leering at a white woman, and Darryl Hunt, an African American man who served nineteen years in prison after being falsely convicted of raping and murdering a white woman in North Carolina in 1984.”
― Nicole Weisensee Egan, Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad

“What do you want?”

I snarl at her. “Glory for my father, an end to the war, and food for our people.” My eyes betray me, searching Rose out, tracing the dirt smeared across her cheek…

“You’re saying the right words…” Prae whispers.

“I mean them.” I force my eyes away from Rose. “This is just some fairy magic trick, like you said.” There’s no other reason for her to haunt my thoughts like this.

“It isn’t.”
― Marie Mistry, Across an Endless Sea