“I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I... wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of…”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Personally… I don’t give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can’t learn anything from you, I can’t read in some fuckin’ book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t want to do that do you sport? You’re terrified of what you might say.…”— Robin Williams, amazon.com
“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“You know what? I don’t wanna do it. And it’s very liberating to say no to shit you hate. So you go ahead live your truth, I’ll be here living my truth.”— Hannah Horvath, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“This is not my escapism. This is my honesty. You are the shot of whisky that turns my throat from a body part to a cathedral. I am broken sparrow who flies back to your window because I heard you like my singing. You are land mines of potential. I am not afraid of the explosion.”— Ari Eastman, amazon.com
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that in those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.”— Chris Harris, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth.' This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognize it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, theguardian.com
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”— Mr. Knightley, amazon.com
“I think it's absolutely essential for you to know that you are sacred, magical, and special, to nurture that truth and unleash it into the world. That's right. I want you to fuck this earth with your energy.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“I am a karmayogi: someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through meditation in some ashram or saying Hail Marys.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves…”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“We're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the certitude it generates is paralyzing.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“I saw you, and I knew there was a story behind your eyes. I wanted to be the first to read it.”— Unknown, facebook.com