False memory Quotes

“His pulse races under my palms. "Was there ever. . .between us, was there ever something?" I say.He shakes his head. "Just for me. But you were always Noah's.""I don't want to be."He doesn't say anything.”

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”

“Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.”

“He stops pacing. 'I know, Miranda, I did it because I—' 'Stop! Don't say it. I don't want to hear you say it.' 'I have to say it,' Noah says. 'No, you don't.' If I hear him say the word love, I don't know what I'll do. I still have my gun. Maybe one day I can forgive him, but all chance of that goes out the window if he claims he did it for love. If you love someone, the idea is respect them enough to trust them. Not to take away their freedom. Their life.”

“Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.”

“Hope lies in action”

“Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.”

“Where does fiction end and reality begin?”

“How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.”