truth

"... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life."

"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."

"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."

"Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too."

"Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office."

"But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."

"Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television."

"Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it."

"...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory."

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."

"I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up."

"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."

"It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be..."

"Sometimes what we want isn't what we need."

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

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

"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe."

"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it."

"Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth."