"Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything."
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"All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news."
"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 most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood."
"How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail."
"Love isn't always a physical emotion. Sometimes it's the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are"
"It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be."
"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."
"I would argue that unless the two people are in love, all sex is bad sex, because why eat cotton candy when you can have edible clouds? Sure, it seems sweet at the time, but that’s just a carnival and carnal rush and wears off quickly. But love adds an extra dimension that takes an earthy thing like sex and makes it absolutely heavenly."
"The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma."
"It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."
"Does truth have a moral?"
"This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses."
"Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear."
"The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?"
"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
"If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?"
"People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there"
"Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day."