“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
“A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love; she endures all things, beans all things and can be stretched to any limit.”
“Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.”
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.”
“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”
“He was the deadliest man in Texas, on that they all agreed.”