“ Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. ”
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
~ Robert Ludlum
Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)
The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.
And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.