Denial of reality Quote by Flora Rheta Schreiber

“I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

“I’ll pretend to be anyone or anything other than myself, but the problem is that no one is ever fooled.”

— leila sales

“So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing,…

— Lauren Myracle

“I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they’d heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they…

— Jay Asher

“There was that part of me that thought if I was already been accused of it and punished for it, then I should just…

— J M Northup

“Usually, it was an accident. A lie I never set out to tell. A trick I never meant to play. I’d open my mouth,…

— Rory Power

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Honestly, I don’t think people ever get un-screwed-up. I think it’s just, how well can you pretend to be someone else, and how long.”

— J.C. Lillis

“But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I…

— Nancy Werlin

“I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I…

— A.L. Jackson

“But I had learned deceptions could be uttered with a straight face, a warm smile might conceal malice, and that the most dangerous lies…

— Sue Lynn Tan

“I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't run away…

— Alice Hoffman