Sophie Kinsella Quotes

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

I actually believe in denial.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

Right now, as I've gotten older, my tics sustain for five or ten years. So, I can deal with them on a daily basis; I know how it affects my body. But when you're 10 years old, and every three months a tic comes along, it's daunting because you don't know what the next one is going to look like, what it's going to feel like.

Denial is a powerful force.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I think any time I'm nervous I just pretend that I'm not, and that's how I deal with it.

I'm very good at denial.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm just not on time [at the plate]." You make something else up because pain is not an option.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Denial is an ugly thing.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?