Truth

"What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life."

"The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath"

"You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it' 'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.'Kristy and Macy; p.135"

"Gus and I talk about girls a lot, but we can't figure them out. They are so confusing. Like, if you look at them, they get mad. And if you don't look at them, they get mad. And if you're nice to them, they think you like them. And if you're mean to them, they think you like them. And if you do like them, they think you hate them."

"Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free."

"The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide."

"After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him."

"The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do."

"What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does the most to shape us. God is the Sun too bright for us to see. Jesus is the Prism who makes the colors beautiful and comprehensible."

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

"If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it."

"Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war."

"There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity."

"On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art."

"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."

"It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition."

"A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth."

"The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it."

"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."