Quotes About Truth

El descubrira mi engaño y nunca más deseará verme.

But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Apa yang dikatakan orang-orang bukanlah masalah, selama aku mempertahankan perilaku yang benar.

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.

She found that the less she thought, the more often she found simple truths appearing right in front of her.

Afterward, I felt it had been wrong not telling the family about the baby, because then I wanted them to know about the miscarriage, so that they knew the baby had existed. But when I told people, they seemed more interested in the fact that I'd kept the pregnancy a secret. They felt they'd been tricked. They said things like "Oh, I did wonder that day when you didn't drink at the Easter BBQ but you said you just didn't feel like drinking!" In other words, LIAR.

It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.

As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn't experienced ten years of living.

Your children see!" screamed Bonnie. Her face was ugly with rage. "We see! We fucking see!

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. People always obediently smiled and tilted their heads when a camera was put in front of them. Perhaps seconds after the shutter clicked, she and Nick sprang apart, avoiding each other's eyes, their smiles replaced by snarls. She

Amy had never had a boyfriend hit her, although she'd had a couple who fucked her when she was too out of it to consent, but that was before consent got fashionable. Those kinds of incidents used to be considered 'funny'. Even 'hilarious'. The worse you felt, the louder you laughed. The laughter was necessary because it put you back in charge. You didn't remember, so you created a memory you hoped was the truth.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share. Every day brought an endless stream of new life.

Supposedly, the truth was always the best option.

What was the actual benefit of accuracy when it came to memories?

Real people don't have the answers. They make mistakes. They say things with great authority and they're wrong.

fucked her when she was too out of it to consent, but that was before consent got fashionable. Those kinds of incidents used to be considered "funny." Even "hilarious." The worse you felt, the louder you laughed. The laughter was necessary because it put you back in charge. You didn't remember, so you created a memory you hoped was the truth.

None of this seems real," said Alice. "I'm like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made sense. You didn't like it either. We liked things to make sense.

Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy as a bedbug. Oh,

her grandfather used to say, "Never spoil a good story with the facts.