#dec

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable. ↗

It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#may-december-relationships #humor

Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself. ↗

— Tina Fey

#humor #humor

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. ↗

— Paolo Coelho

#paolo-coelho #veronica-decides-to-die #humor

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#deception #dishonor #falsehood #love #shame

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up. ↗

— Helen Cross

#lies #words #love

Reality denied comes back to haunt. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#history #psychology #self-deception #behavior

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#self-deception #deception

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. ↗