Orson Scott Card Quotes on Denial
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Why did I come? I didn't come. I went. I wasn't coming here, to meet these people. I was leaving there. Getting away. Only I tricked myself.
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As long as no one said anything, he could pretend that it was love. That she felt about him as he felt about her
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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She needed his gentle hands and quiet tears, his lies and his affection. And so she pretended to believe that he really did need her
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They're afraid of death! Can you at least imagine what that means? We fear death, too No... You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
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You had no choice No, but you'd be amazed at how often people who have no choice act as if they had one, and lose everything because they could not bear to do what had to be done