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“Im still pretty sick about what Ive lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why Im not the best sleeper.”
“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape can add an edginess to your language, talking about actual rape is taboo. I didn't know this unt...”
“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.”
“Our divorce was an optical illusion, surely, because I am often still there, in my old home with my family. I can so easily fool myself, even without a scope, a lens, a patch of sky to measure my t...”
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
“What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a good daughter. Most of all, I realize, is that it allowed me to maintain the lie that she ...”
“The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a long period of time in which the only focus is to be the matters of the soul. Many believe a pilgrimage is about going away but it isnt; it is a...”
“I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.”
“Ruthie started to cry at Julia's use of the word "hate," though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time now it had been easier just to hate her sister. Easier to try to define the relati...”
“I protect myself by refusing to know myself.”
“Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just...”
“Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing.”
“If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.”
“Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in...”
“Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.”
“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”
“In 2011, actor Johnny Depp told the November issue of Vanity Fair that he felt participating in a photoshoot was akin to rape."Well, you just feel like you're being raped somehow. Raped . . . It fe...”
“Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a guilt complex because He accused them of being whited sepulchersoutside clean, inside full of dead mens bone...”
“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”
“what you knowand dont deny thatyou dont knowand knowing thisyou knowwhat and whyyou dont know.Right?”
