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

Denial, War, Irony, Contrast

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

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"A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"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

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"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

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"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."

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"There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness."

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"I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to."

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"Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it."

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"Please, Katsa," he finally said. "At least talk to me".She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it.""And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?"

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"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."

Risk

"People want incongruous, impossible things."

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"I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop."

Confession

"How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill."

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"This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did."

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