“Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.”

“I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality”

“Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.”

“… when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

“Is my imagination as important as reality? Sometimes I think YES… It's imagination that makes reality tolerable… Sometimes, I just want to close my eyes and fall in to the endless imagination…”

“If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

“You did not do so badly for something that is worthless. But there was a time when I could not find you.”

“The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.”

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”