Quotes About Truth

Everyone," she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.

Toat? lumea, continu? ea, privind în jur spre noi, are ceva de spus. Dar nu toat? lumea poate suporta s? o spun?. Treaba voastr? e s? g?si?i o modalitate.

Will your hearts always be aching? Is that what you are asking me?" Goodman shifted in discomfort. "Something like that," he said. "Yes," said the counselor in a suddenly plangent voice. "Always they will be aching. I wish I could tell you something else, but I wouldn't be telling the truth. My wise and gentle friends, this is the way it will be from now on." No one could say anything. "We are so, so fucked," Jules finally said,

I've always sort of felt that you prepare yourself over the course of your whole life for the big moments, you know? But when they happen, you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're not what you thought. And that's what makes them strange. The reality is really different from the fantasy.

Everyone has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

Siempre he tenido la sensación de que uno se pasa la vida como… preparándose para los grandes momentos, ¿sabes? Pero cuando llegan, a veces no te sientes nada preparado, o incluso resulta que no son como habías pensado. Y eso es lo que los hace extraños. La realidad es realmente distinta de la fantasía.

I can't bear the idea of looking deeply. Because you inevitably turn up horrible things.

I don't know,' Greer said to Zee, aware of a kind of familiar vagueness sweeping around her. She sometimes said, 'I don't know,' even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

Unlike almost everyone he knew at college, Jonah was not particularly ambitious. When people inquired about his ambitions, he told them that his mother's non-acquisitive folksinger's values must have rubbed off on him, because he didn't feel the need to have his life figured out. But the truth was that he didn't want to deal with it.

in the end all the things you think matter are just disappointment and noise.

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.

We are never deceived," she says, her voice deep and ringing. "We deceive ourselves.

They all played it so straight, as if they were just girls, girls with gentle smiles and simple needs. But the truth was they all lived in a gasp of tension.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

You must tell me the truth. I've seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go.

I did not know how to say that, nor how to tell Goldie that I had not lived the life she obviously thought I had.

So I ignored the rest. I ignored everything that told me nothing was as I'd believed. That was my first mistake.

Dozens. I've been drawing them forever. It was a way to—" I stopped, surprised that I'd almost said the truth about my mother and what these drawings had meant, about the future I'd been promised, my loneliness and need.

Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra All in the World is Smoke and Shadow –Latin motto

There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what you want them to be.