“Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. ”
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
“Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not.”
“Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.”
“Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.”
“Jesca returned the smile. 'You are a brave one--or perhaps foolhardy.''Difficult to tell,' Cope said cheerily.”