“Denial, I have learned, is not the act of lying to yourself. Denial is not an act, it’s a state. It’s the state of not knowing you are a liar. I was fixated on a certain picture of my life, and that picture was reflected on the surface of everything I saw. We do not choose to be blind, and when we are blind, we don’t know that. We see as much as we can bear to see, and we assume that’s all there is.” - Catherine in We Could Be Beautiful”