Quotes About Truth

That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter how richly we imagine, no matter how vividly we set the scene, we never come close to the unambiguous realness of the moment itself.

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, see my finger cut my throat if I tell a lie," said the girl, in a singsong tone, and with accompanying dramatic gestures of fearful histrionic fervour.

That's the way it works in movies. Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. What that really means, other than what it sounds like, is, let's say something happens and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.

Kidding yourself doesn't require that you have a sense of humor. But

I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You

It was hiding in plain sight. Mocking the suggestion that anything was going on; therefore, it couldn't be true. A technique I like to use to this day.

Well, when the Enquirer becomes your standard for living, you're in a lot of trouble! When

if what this person told me were true, then I didn't have to actually be comfortable all the time.

Oh! Before I forget! My mother wants you all to know that this comes from my father's side. She's as normal as the day is long.

Suzanne Vale had a problem, and it was the one she least liked thinking about: She'd had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay. He forgot to tell her, and she forgot to notice.

I have to start by telling you that my entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.

Then he smiles at me and my heart starts beating harder, which I'm ashamed to admit, but it's true. Hearts betray you like that. This is why it's perfectly acceptable to be cardiophobic, afraid of hearts.

Monsters? Why? Because we admit to the pain we cause? Admit we like it?...

If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White

Why can't we all just be honest with each other? It would be so easy to just not trust anyone ever, but you can't go through life with a pair of scissors in each hand, snip-snip-snipping away at everything people say or don't say, can you? You have to leave one hand free to catch the truth.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.

A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

that's a pretty big lie by omission

I know this is difficult, Maggie, but listen to me. There's more to waiting than just biding our time. Our job is to pray and trust the Lord to reveal what's hidden and bring the full truth to light.