Stephen King. Secret window, secret garden (№ 396433)

Mort didn't believe that people - even if they try to be radically honest with ourselves - are able to understand that some part of their life coming to an end. Even when it's obviously not as ABC, but as a one off single, people still continue to believe that it is still possible to return. Losing something dear, something essential to them, people are willing to deceive ourselves, ready to believe that life is ruled by the same laws as with the development of the plot in the TV series, and that is enough to make one more effort and all will return into place. "Without this capacity for self-deception, human civilization would have been even crazier", they used to put mort Rainey.
But sometimes the truth breaks through all barriers, and if thinking about your future, you avoided the truth, the result will be devastating: it washes over you like waves of the tide that swept away erected on their way to the dam and spread in chips your sanctuary.