We construct fairy tales and we accept them. Our minds concoct all sorts of fantasies when we don’t want to believe something.
I’m not insane. It just got really easy, is the problem. That’s why it kept happening.
Okay, yes, I definitely remember doing that, but also, I would never do that.
You want to know what I do when I’m sad or scared? F***ing nothing. Because I’m not a f***ing pussy.[to Hughie]
The thing about denial is sometimes problems do just go away on their own, so it makes it feel like denial works. The placebo effect.
The human desire to avoid difficult news sometimes makes one deaf.
Sometimes being angry is easier than facing the truth.
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. When they lie, cheat, steal, beat their wives, they need to believe in a bane more terrible than they are. It makes them seem less monstrous themselves.
Of all the lies a man can tell, none more dangerous than the ones he tells himself.
Look at him. His son reduced to ashes, and there he is, dancing like he doesn’t have a care in the world. Either he’s crazy, or I am.[about Kurt]
How can anyone believe this is fake?[Kentaro Randa]It’s easier than waking up every day and thinking, at any moment, the same could happen to you.[Cate Randa]
I’m not like you.[Billy Maximoff]Where have I heard that before?[Agatha Harkness]
