Quotes About Denial

We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed of my child. It's as if I was an unwilling accomplice to the kidnapping of my own child. So you have to live with the trauma of losing your child and then you have to live with the trauma of knowing you didn't stop it. How do you do that?

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Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

He wanted to believe nothing had happened, that their night on the river ended like any other night.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

No, no, no to Tallyho.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

So it had been me. Maybe I'd known that all along, and that was why I had run. Because I didn't show weakness: I didn't depend on anyone. And if he'd been like the others, and just let me go, I would have been fine. It would have been easy to go on conveniently forgetting as I kept my heart clenched tight, away from where anyone could get to it.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

She was looking right at me, shaking her head, and I told myself she was wrong, so wrong, even as she spoke. "You're a goner.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

A young woman seeks sanctuary with us. It is not for us to deny her that right. Tell His Holiness that we will protect her with our lives and care for her until she is ready to leave." Not even Alexander VI can storm a convent and get away with it. The

You're hot for Quinn." For a moment Amy froze like a bunny in the car headlights. Then she made a rude noise. "Am not. Don't be ridiculous." "Bull. Shit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him like a cat on a curtain," Denise said with undisguised relish.

Good-bye," he says. "Bring back the lamp." Not going to happen, mister.

The answer is no, said Melody firmly. "Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

The definition of sin is clear: disobedience against the laws of God. But the age is so dark in ignorance that people defiantly deny that there is even such a thing as sin. Their defiant disobedience is itself the essence of sin.

Like it or not, people say no more than they say "yes.

But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.

Most people, she said, can't stand the truth. It's too bad but there it is, most people can't stand it.

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?