"If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ..."

Denial, Hope, Perception, Coping

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"If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ..."

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"Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Denial, Reality, Humor, Emotion

"With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Denial, Ignorance, Symbolism, Darkness

"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

Denial, Sense

"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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Denial, Fear, Faith, Truth

"I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Denial, War, Irony, Contrast

"Or he was simply pretending-like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Denial, Addiction, Repetition, Escape

"She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one."

Boy George, English Musician

Denial, Insecurity

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

Denial, Reality

"But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it."

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

Denial, Thought, Anxiety, Reflection

"I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with."

Anne Ford, American Author

Denial, Disability, Years

Explore more quotes by Sophie Kinsella

"I'd laugh, only my stupid lizard brain has disabled the laugh button for now. I'm too frozen up with tension.I am owed so much laughter. Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that last twenty-four hours."

Happiness

"I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff."

Independence

"You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away."

Emotion

"They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail."

Betrayal

"If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?"

Integrity

"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."

Fear

"Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8."

Resilience

"I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister."

Observation

"Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable."

Regret

"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore."

Fashion