I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Why do you fight it?" I whisper."Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

It is not what you don’t know that hurts you; it is what you do know, which is not the truth that does your spirit the most harm.

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

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.

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.