--So B. It by Sarah Weeks
“I’d be lying if I said that given a choice, I wouldn’t rather know than not know. But there are some things you can just know for no good reason other than that you do, and then there are other things that no matter how badly you want to know them, you just can’t. The truth is, whether you know something or not doesn’t change what was.”
--So B. It by Sarah Weeks
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“Even though she’s still barely willing to speak to me, it feels better than being all by myself. Sometimes I pretend she is Will, and that I know exactly where he is and what’s happening to him, right there above me. Sometimes I try not to think about it, and I don’t pretend anything. Mostly, though, I pretend that everything I’ve told everyone is true: my big brother is dead. In that scenario, at least, we all get some rest.”
--Breathless by Jessica Warman “That, and your desire, your overwhelming desire, not to be lied to. You believe me because you want what I tell you to be the truth. No matter how crazy. And because I promised no more lies.”
--Liar by Justine Larbalestier “But I know a lot about cages, about prisons. I’ve been kept hostage by lies all my life. Imprisoned by them. This is how it is: I’m alone. Bars surround me. Prison guards bind my arms, bring me pills several times a day. They ask me—beg me—to tell them the truth. I am. Every single word. Truth. They don’t believe in my wolves.”
--Liar by Justine Larbalestier “That’s why I’m writing this. To keep me from going over the edge. I don’t want to be a liar anymore. I want to tell my stories true. But I haven’t so far. Not entirely. I’ve tried. I’ve really, really tried. I’ve tried harder than I ever have. But, well, there’s so much and it’s so hard. I slipped a little. Just a little. I’ll make it up to you, though. From now on it’s nothing but the truth. Truly.”
--Liar by Justine Larbalestier “Once you start believing, you stop being compulsive and morph into pathological. It happens a lot after something terrible has happened. The brain cracks, can’t accept the truth, and makes its own. Invents a bigger and better world that explains the bad thing, makes it possible to keep living. When the world you’re seeing doesn’t line up with the world that is—you can wind up doing things--terrible things—without knowing it.”
--Liar by Justine Larbalestier “I was ashamed and angry and hating being caught and already spinning more lies to explain it all away. But it is also a relief. It’s always a relief. Because the air is clear, now--at last—I can tell the truth. From this moment on everything will be true. A life lived true with no rotten foundations. Trust. Understanding. Everything shiny and new. Except I can’t not ever. Because my truth is so unbelievable—“
--Liar by Justine Larbalestier “I was brought up my whole life on the belief that telling people the truth leads to disaster. I’ve done it, too. Told the truth and watched everyone freak out.”
--Liar by Justine Larbalestier "Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes."
--The Truth byTerry Pratchett "There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those
who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" -- The Truth by Terry Pratchett |