truth

"She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble."

"My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one"

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

"I cannot love a man who cannot protect me."

"Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins."

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open."

"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."

"When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation."

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless."

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth."

"Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night."

"Reading makes you ready for the world. A man who doesn’t read is a man who is easily deceived. You must find that man and make him sign a contract, and you must do it before Satan does. Trust me, the profits are HUGE!"

"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."

"Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth."

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

"Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth."

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."