“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.”— Buddha, amazon.com
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”— John Grisham, forbes.com
“It’s impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk around constantly believing ourselves. I’m okay, we say. I’m alright. But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer - it’s…”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Happiness isn't real if you have to force it everyday. Too many people forcing an unrealistic life on their audiences. We need more truth.”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“We don’t choose our stories. Our stories choose us, and if we don’t write them, if we ignore them, we are somehow diminished. But at the same time, I don’t feel that being a writer gives any of us the right to just let it rip. To disregard the feelings of the people surrounding us. So I take care. P…”— Honor Moore, danishapiro.com
“I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“The pure always act from love. The damned always act from love. The truth is an act of love.”— Iggy Pop, open.spotify.com
“As if writing were, like love, the offspring of a cloud. When you touch it, it melts.”— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com