Quotes About Truth

Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth.

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.

Don't quote me on any of this. It's been a long time since I've been test­ed

The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.

Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying.

That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.

The truth is noth­ing new ev­er hap­pens.

Miss Rona says nothing is gross. Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

I don't ex­pect you to un­der­stand," Adam says. "You're still the eight-?year-?old sit­ting in school, sit­ting in church, be­liev­ing ev­ery­thing you're told. You re­mem­ber pic­tures in books. They planned how you'd live your whole life. You're still asleep.

Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions.

And married peolpe always think love is the answer.

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step—usually the pogo—and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick.

The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around.

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.

People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

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The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough.

His Highness looks at Denny and says, "Those glasses you're wearing, do you need them?" "Only to see with," Denny says.

Because we love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.

You get everybody telling the same lie and it ain't a lie, not no more.