Quotes About Truth

Hay una diferencia entre querer de verdad a una persona y querer la idea que te has hecho de ella».

Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I'd have been without it?

Y si todos interpretamos un papel, es imposible que exista nada semejante a un compañero de alma porque lo que tenemos no son almas de verdad.

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle.

So it had to stop. Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.

He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy. "No, he wasn't," I said, and she laughed like she clearly hadn't in a month.

but facts were facts, and people didn't get to turn Amy into everyone's beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient.

No soy un mentiroso del deslumbrante calibre de Amy, pero no se me da mal cuando es necesario.

The little brown house was my father's house, which was actually blue, but Amy was making another inside joke. I'd always liked our inside jokes the best – they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.

you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion.

Just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, Amy. Not right now. I can't take one more bit of stress. I can't handle one more thing to worry about. I am cracking under the pressure. I will snap." For once I know he's telling the truth.

Gillian Flynn

But in truth, I think she's always had more problems with children than she'd ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There's a jealousy, a resentfulness that I can feel even now, in my memory.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

And every single person in this case lies, is lying, did lie.

Time to drop the illusion.

We're all bitches in the end, aren't we...

Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

El amor hace que quieras ser un hombre mejor, vale, de acuerdo. Peor a lo mejor el amor, el verdadero amor, también te autoriza para ser simplemente el hombre que eres.

We're on your side, but we need the truth. The only thing that makes you look bad is you holding out on us.

Se interrumpe, sé que está a punto de mentir. Es la peor sensación: cuando tienes que esperar y armarte de valor para la mentira.

This is the unforgiving light of morning,' I whispered back. 'Time to drop the illusion.