“Illusions have to be justified. Half-truths have to be made sense of. The genuine things, the best things, the 'most right' things, truly just are.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for an instant before it flickers away.”— Hp Lyrikz, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”— Allen Ginsberg, ginsbergblog.blogspot.com
“Old souls can be seen as strange people because they often hold unconventional ideals and standards of living. They often feel a sense of separation from themselves and the ‘real world’ because things like obtaining great wealth, owning a lot of expensive possessions, and other traits of living a ma…”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“If you want to tell your partner you’re a virgin, it’s best to clear the air in the beginning. Who knows… maybe he’s a virgin as well! And if he has a problem with you being a virgin, then he’s not worth losing it to.”— Katie Szymanski, hercampus.com
“The truth is, a victim of abuse rarely consciously ‘chooses’ to be in an abusive relationship – often, they ‘choose’ a partner who treats them very well in the beginning – the false mask that the abuser portrays. When the victim is sufficiently hooked into the relationship and invested, that is when…”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“The problem is, the world doesn't work that way just because you want it to.”— Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“Keep telling your truth over and over again. Keep an eye out for the voice that says, ‘You’re not good enough!’ That comes from growing up as an object in a patriarchy, from the moment when we’re sexual and we’re looked at as something for men to use. We’re fighting just to be humans, to be the ‘the…”— Jill Soloway, thedailybeast.com
“It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands c…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com