“All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person’s sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.”
Source: Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable seducers who were not really damaged by the sex abuse or as dramatic fantasizers projecting their own incestuous wishes onto the father. I will argue that this view pervades the false-memory movement and can be found, for example, in Gardner's work (1992).”
Source: Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate
“It is a three-year-old child with a heart worn by three million years of living.”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“It is lamentable to discredit a practice that prohibits and inhibits abomination; only to inherit a misfit culture.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Know-It-Alls control people and events by dominating the conversation with lengthy, imperious arguments, and they eliminate opposition by finding flaws and weaknesses to discredit other points of view. Because Know-It-Alls are actually knowledgeable and competent,”
Source: Negotiating the impossible: how to break deadlocks and resolve ugly conflicts
“Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto.”
Source: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
“How does it feel to break a part of you each day and feed to the demons inside the other person in the name of love.
How many days will you do that? Have your ever thought about what happens after those demons had enough of you and decide
to leave you for the taste of new soul? Look at yourself once, How much of you is remaining for yourself? Will ever get that part of you back?”
“Понедівнок, вивторок и четвер, то мушшіне. А середи, п'єтниці й неділі, то чєлідь.”
Source: Дідо Иванчік
“It was curious to Doris how Jenny could be indifferent to a certain man on Monday, on Tuesday be slightly interested in him, on Wednesday be head over heels in love, on Thursday have a waning interest, and by Friday have completely forgotten him.”
Source: FRIENDS IN ARMS: A Tale Of The Great War