When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one’s breath before the next disaster. But I didn’t want to think about that. I didn’t want to wonder what would happen next.

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.