Quotes About Truth

She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?" "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it's not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it's definitely not true.

I realized I'm in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Ah, well,? said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ?I have it on good authority there?s going to be a new 'gate? opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ?Oh lord. You?re the one who?s been doling out C4.? ?You make it sound so easy,? he said with a frown. ?That stuff?s hard to get a hold of.

I don't balance you like you need." "What the hell does that mean?" he exclaimed. My heart ached for him, and I was so sorry for what I'd done...but this was the truth of it all. "The fact that you have to ask says it all. When you find that person...you'll know.

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

I have it on good authority there's going to be a new 'gate' opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. "Oh lord. You're the one who's been doling out C4." "You make it sound easy," he said with a frown. "That stuff's hard to get a hold of.

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Rose once told me about this poem she'd read. There was this line, 'If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.' You know what I'm afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won't know.

The Alchemists' beliefs are my beliefs," I say quickly. She arched an eyebrow. "Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs." I'd never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were true.

He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. "Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time." "Yeah, but this isn't—" I couldn't argue with him looking at me like that. "I have to go. Wait… you didn't take the cross." I held it out to him. He shook his head. "Keep it. I think I've got something else to help center my life.

Aaron would never make up anything like that." "That's because Aaron doesn't say anything that requires words of more than one syllable.

It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly.

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Cheaters, I thought.

I'm serious. She asked me what my greatest strength was. I said getting along with people." "That's not bad," I admitted. "Then she asked what my greatest weakness was. And I said, 'Where should I start?" "Adrian!" "Stop saying my name like that. I told her the truth. By the time I was on the fourth one, she told me I could go." I groaned and resisted the urge to beat my head on the steering wheel.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

You're a terrible liar, boy," Rand called after us. "Is he right?" I asked quietly, once we'd put some distance between the guest cabin and us. "That I'm a terrible liar? No. I'm a fantastic liar.

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.