Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars. - Jane Yolen

Did we do wrong in believing, Marina?" Mom asked suddenly.
"Never in believing, Mom," I said. "Just in what we believed.

Dad, everyone knows Beelson is a nutcase! You should hear the things they say about him in school."
My father looked at me sadly. "I thought you didn't believe in basing your life on what everyone else says, Mr. Nonconformist."
"OK, skip what everyone else says. I think he's nuts.

Madness also makes folks uneasy; they fear contagion.