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“The confusion, that one so young - me it seems, because I remember - should be so damaged, that no one looked out for me or cared. And even now, I grin and mock myself out of fear. But I hold the truth aloft, a golden torch, sacred, because no one else dares to.”
― Billy Childish, My Fault

“Books were a way to escape reality,
in pages of characters and worlds that didn’t exist.
Characters that you understand, friends that aren’t
physically there but make your day better.
Somehow you feel like your on an adventure, going
through a sequence of events and the most powerful thing
about books is that the message books hold means something
to anyone who has read the pages of them.”
― tiana (random girl)

“I felt sick at the thought that I'd hurt you, and I was ashamed I'd been in jail. You were smart, beautiful, and ambitious and you had your whole life ahead of you---an incredible future with an amazing career and a partner who could give you the world. And I was everything my dad had said I was. No direction. No motivation. No prospects. That night I got a taste of my future, and I didn't want you in it. I didn't want to drag you down. I thought it was better if I left with you hating me than if I came to say goodbye."
Tears welled up in her eyes as she relived the emotions of that night, knowing now that he was nothing like her mother, that he'd left because he'd thought he wasn't good enough and not because she wasn't good enough for him.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“Don’t conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Everybody should know exactly what it is that they are. Really now. If you are beautiful, please know that you are beautiful; if you are strong please know that you are strong; if you are courageous please know that you are courageous; if you are a cunt, please don't fool yourself thinking you're a good person. You are in fact a cunt. If you are a giver, then know you are a giver and learn how to receive. If you are a receiver, identify this, then learn how to give. If you are incredibly stupid; please try to fix that and if you are profoundly intelligent, then please don't hide that. If you are gay, then love being gay and if you're straight then love being straight. Please be who it is that you are, please look into the mirror, please see yourself. Always. Every day. Be whatever it is that you are. Fix what needs to be fixed, throw out what needs to be thrown out; but please, not even for a second, do not ever stop looking at your reflection in the mirror!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.”
― Monika Zands

“However, ana al-haqq as it stands has raised a few literary questions as well and, within the tradition of mystic poetry, the attitude preserved in Hallaj's expression has given rise to mixed reactions regarding its content. It is held that it is an exaggeration of subjective experience, and ana—the personal "I"—shows leanings toward megalomania and egotism. It is the personal "I" which overshadows al-haqq, and thereby invites total attention to itself. In fact, the personal "I" absorbs al-haqq, and reaches out to the romantic cult of the egostistical sublime. In this context, the truth tends to become subjective and, therefore, relative, and in its social implications it shows the possibility of numerous diversions. Extreme individualism, in contrast to institutionalism, is also held to be related to ana al-haqq. The personal "I" is supposed to be potentionally explosive and destructive for values of the Establishment. A.J. Arberry has summed up the position by saying that Hallaj had dared to declare that his direct awareness of God was for him a clearer proof than both revelation and reason.”
― Gilani Kamran, Ana Al-Haqq Reconsidered

“Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.”
― Hunter Avallone

“In the end, we are always the same. Same traits, same name, same character, in the same story.”
― Lauren Kasper (me)

“The cognitive style of individuals with paranoid personality disorder deserves special mention. Overtly, they have a legalistic bent, sharp attention, rich vocabulary, hypervigilance, and a tendency toward perceptual hairsplitting; they often possess striking oratorial skills. Covertly, however, they are unable to grasp the “big picture.�� They readily dismiss the obvious, including any evidence that is contradictory to their preexisting beliefs. Their attention is narrow and biased. They are experts in seeing the “truth�� but almost always fail to grasp the “whole truth.”
― Salman Akhtar, Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders

“Who wants to survive without truth?" . . . "Maybe people who have had too much of it. Or people who have had too little. Or people who are too shallow to appreciate its hard edges.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“When people want to love you, let them. When people open a door like that, never close it, not even to hide.”
― Kim Zarins, Sometimes We Tell the Truth

“Our misbeliefs often make it impossible for us to realize, and/or to accept, some facts.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“كلُّ تجربةٍ للحقيقةِ هي متناهية، لكنّ الحقيقةَ في تناهيها هي مجاوِزة لذاتِها”
― عبدالصمد الكباص, أفول الحقيقة : الإنسان ينقض ذاته

“Know that once you hear this truth, there will be no going back to the old life as you know and love it. Moreover, I must warn you not to judge us, your own people. Instead, you will need a lot of patience and courage and faith to understand this truth. Finally, I have to tell you that I count only on the measure of your love for me for us to remain together, after you have heard the truth”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Eventually you will get to a place so far up, that there is only down.”
― Lauren Kasper (me)

“She bit her lower lip, a habit the village gossip had once told her was unladylike and unattractive. Strange; all her life she'd striven to become a proper young woman, to make her family proud of her. These past few months, she'd spent doing the opposite. Trying to pass as a man, a soldier.
Her worst fear had been that she'd be caught impersonating someone who didn't exist. She never imagined she'd tell anyone of her own free will. She swallowed. "So you... you should know it's true. I'm not... Ping."
"If you're not Ping, then who are you?" Shang asked.
"I'm..." Mulan sucked in her breath. Her voice shook, and she worried her heart might burst out of its armor. She set down her sword, rubbed the sweat off her palms onto her bare arm. Then she reached for her hair and undid the knot. The black sheet of hair tumbled down, brushing just against her shoulder blades.
"My ancestors were right," she said, surprised by how calm her voice was. "My parents never had a son. There is no Ping."
She raised her eyes to meet Shang's. "There is only- Mulan.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Reflection

“Be true to God in everything that you say and do, don't be fake; don't shed crocodile tears, do not decieve anybody, do not conceal the truth because God sees everything, God knows all things, God is everywhere. You cannot hide from God. God will always reveal the truth against all odds. The world will see right through you.....
Yeah...
God Our Protector Keep My Faith:Biblical Verses 6, a book by Stellah Mupanduki.”
― Stellah Mupanduki

“You, the reader, are way more important than me, the writer”
― Dave Ayotte

“If she had even once rejected Grandma Bev's insistence that she put on a happy face and make the best of things, if she had just told her mother how hurt and abandoned she'd felt, maybe they wouldn't have had to endure over two decades of distance and resentment. Maybe she would have had her mother.
Grandma Bev meant well, no doubt. She was trying to give Melody the resilience she'd needed to deal with all the changes in her young life, but it had only taught her to escape into fiction- both the kind in books and that of her own making. And instead of growing deeper in a true faith, one that was tested in tears and anguished prayers, she stuffed down her pain and retreated to superstition and magical thinking. She'd looked at God's providence like she'd looked at fairy tales- blindly and without any real belief. She'd gone from man to man, trying to buy their love at too high a price, all because she wouldn't admit how much she needed that love. How much it hurt that it always seemed to be out of reach. And because she wouldn't admit any of it, she just went on haplessly repeating her mistakes instead of turning to the One who loved her no matter what.”
― Carla Laureano, Brunch at Bittersweet Café

“The truth is powerful.”
― Adrienne Posey

“I love how time reveals the truth.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Don't sell yourself short, young man,' he said sternly. 'These people don't need charisma. They need hard work and the truth- exactly what you've given them. ... Popularity isn't everything. In fact, it isn't anything when you get right down to it. The majority is rarely right.”
― Karen Hancock, Arena

“The Truth
I endorse Javed Hashmi speaks the truth as I am aware of that too. It was 100% true that 2014 Dharna against elected Prime Minister Nawaz was the conspiracy of all the retired ISI and Army generals. Tahirul Qadri was also a part of that. It was a bloody agenda as a "Revolution" and planned in Canada, London, and Dubai, not in Pakistan.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“But the plain fact is, no matter how many ifs had changed, I'd still be me. Maybe not this me, here with you. But I'd always be a zannie, Nita. I like what I am. I like hurting people.��
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― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“Ever tell you about my bike accident, Stu? Changed my life."
He ignored her.
"Changed. My. Life."
He sighed and dropped his earphones onto his neck. "Okay. Make it quick."
"Know why?...Because I saw something terrible." She blinked into the darkness. She'd been so scared.
"You waiting for a drumroll or something?"
"The truth. That's what I saw."
"Wow. The Dalai Lama. In my cab. Drunk. I'm so honoured.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“I believe the truth—and I mean the real truth, no matter how uncomfortable it can be to hear—will set you free.”
― Sadie Robertson Huff, Who Are You Following?: Pursuing Jesus in a Social Media-Obsessed World

“Sometimes the truth hurts However, It's always done out of Love.”
― FBW Browne

“Truth is precious like refined gold and very rare like a sparkling diamond. Lies are like decayed organic waste abundant common trash polluting the countryside and the atmosphere.”
― Errol Anthony Smythe

“I went through the device and she told me it will only make me more upset, I told her no it wont because I don't care. And now I see if I didnt care I wouldn't be going through. Best way not to care. Is to only care for yourself, self-care. Don't worry about the rest. Let her do whatever she is going to do. Don't block anyone else. Because it is a waste of time. A hoe is a hoe. The past the past. Just know that are subjected to everyone she sees she will seem like she is trusting and loyal. But, in the back of your head you know and have seen the truth.”
― I have trust issues