I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

“Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture w…”

“In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness.”

“At first I wasn’t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which…”

“[...] I always wondered how love could translate into an emergency room visit.”