Quotes About Truth

No woman had aroused him as much since Ishtahar. Perhaps she was really telling the truth about herself.

The past is not all gilded memories of summer, Merlan. If some aspects of it are uncomfortable, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be confronted.

Our people rule this world behind a veil, believing themselves to be superior to the human race, but in truth they are dissolute, power-hungry and selfish. It is the same as if it was in the days of Kharsag, when you recognised that, Shem, and yearned to change it.

Mikha'il and his kind, could only be statues, icons in this world. We could not admit they were actually real.

I enjoyed teaching you. I enjoyed your sense of wonder. Now I feel some of that is destroyed by truth, by awareness.

There is more truth in the old stories than you know.

Eva's instinct was to flinch away from the demand for truth in Lily's hot eyes.

The Parzupheim are antique beings of an almost ethereal appearance and, to those in our first cycle, seemed distinctly alien. History lives in their eyes; it is said they can remember the truth of the world, when they come through from the other place.

Don't you know when a bard lies he commits murder? He murders truth, and from the lips of a king's bard, that kills part of the world.

The truth is there. Work it out.

I, and your other supporters, despised Anu's hollow sanctimony. We were filled with a fire to rebel against all that Kharsag stood for. You made us see the truth, Shem, the lie of it. You were our glorious leader. We would have followed you anywhere.

Don't give up, Tayven. You are the one. We know the truth. You were meant to have the Dragon's Breath. The love you felt for Khaster was pure. The love you can give now is pure. Take back the hope you tried to give me. I relinquish it. I am no longer afraid.

There is nothing for you to fear in being honest.

If anyone could penetrate our disguise in the world, they could.

The clues were there all along, but we'd denied our past and shut ourselves away from the truth.

I came to you as a shower of gold, yet you asked to see my true face. Now you see it. Are you dying, Daniel? Are you burning up?

Oh, come to me, my pretty one! Come sit upon my lap and I will you to the secret places beneath the earth. Don't you understand your purpose? You are here because we hunt the Prince of Truth. Your husband, your lover, your despoiler.

One man told me he did not like what looked out of my eyes. How could I respond to that? He was clearly seeing the truth of me; for all my pious motives, a dangerous killer.

You say you do not see a king in me, and you may be right, but all I see in you is a bullying child.

She told herself she wanted to know what was in his mind. She told herself she was intrigued by him because of his relationship with Valraven. But in her heart she knew the truth: there was power in him that he could show her, that she could learn about, power that Ellony could never have. Also, he was very attractive.

There are two sides to every story, Pharry, and each of those sides can argue that they are right.

We're here because it's honest. I feel like being honest tonight.

Alone, he allowed his masks of smiles and pleasantries to slip. If anyone should have seen his face at that moment, they would have witnessed the truth of him; light leaked from his serpent eyes.

You must not fear me. You are right in saying Owen and I are the same. Come now, let me love you, and everything will make sense.