Quotes About Truth

It felt a littlel less like a game. A trick. A trap.

You have to believe that the opposites reach for each other. I had to understand that when I was thinking I am lost, I was actually finding that I was lost. the two opposite things were true at the same time: found and lost.

Living within the definition of his own truth, just like me. He knows who he wants to be. Most people our age don't have to do that. They stay within the realm of the easy. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

It's weird how much that helps. To have one other person know the truth. To have that reflecting back at me. I don't actually need the world to know. Just one or two people.

You and I are walking in the snow. Why are you walking backwards? I ask. You point in the direction we came from. So they'll think that's where I'm going. You point to where we're going. And that's where I'm from.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

What we are saying is that we did see. And what did we do? We acted blind, and we moved on. That is not the gospel.

I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Will, he says, do you have a sec to talk in the living room? I spin around in the desk chair and stand up. My stomach flips a bit because the living room is the room least likely to be lived in, the room where the nonexistence of Santa is revealed, where grandmothers die, where grades are frowned upon, and where one learns that a man's station wagon goes inside a woman's garage, and then exits the garage, and then enters again, and so on until an egg is fertilized, and etc.

I put my hand in my pocket and feel the edges of Noah's note. I can't believe you kissed him. It would be so easy to obsess about how he found out. But that's only a speculative digression. The real problem is that it's the truth.

Estou aprendendo que uma vida não é real até alguém mais conhecer sua realidade. E quero que minha vida seja real.

Appropriate. The word is a well-dressed cage, used to capture the truth and hang it in a room that no one ventures into.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it.

Lo que tú sientes es absolutamente lo correcto para ti. Siempre recuerda eso.

If happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it. That is, she wants Justin to see it. And it's there, just out of my reach. A sound waiting to be a word.

When you're telling the truth, you should look terrified and exhilarated at the same time, because telling the truth is navigating both of those feelings at the same exact time.

It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.