truth

"Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”“The way you tell it, it is."

"Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning."

"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."

"There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"So you're always honest,"I said."Aren't you?""No,"I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar,"I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts,"I said."Yeah,"he said. "So do lies, though."

"I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are."

"What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?"

"It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."

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

"She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.--City of Ember--"

"The truth brings no man a fortune."

"Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark"

"I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire"

"Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse."

"Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."

"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."