Quotes About Clarity

It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

At least you know what you want. I don't know what I want. Then he was quiet for a long time. We were almost home before he said, Just want to be with you. Like this. My heart sped up. I made a joke. That's probably not a viable career option. Yeah, he said, laughing a little. Probably not.

Lie. Lie to everyone until you know the truth.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

I meant what I said to you. I wasn't playing some kind of summer game. Everything I said was true, from the first day. EVERY GODDAMN WORD.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it -- it wan't Will's. It was mine.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.

Conciseness is underrated

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible