It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

“You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't …”

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, …”

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who…”

“She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods b…”