truth

"Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true."

"What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death."

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

"Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know."

"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth."

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

"Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell..."

"In darkness God's truth shines most clear."

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."

"How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most."

"Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you."

"I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf"

"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."

"He said the truth is like that water: it doesn't matter how hard you try to bury it; it'll always find some way back to the surface. It's resilient."

"When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface."

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."