Truth Quote by Marie Rutkoski — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.”

“His dear face, dear to her, dearer still. how could she love his face more for its damage? What kind of person saw someone's suffering and felt her heart crack open even wider, even more sweetly than before?”

“He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin had been born in the year of the god of death, and he was finally glad of it. He surrendered himself to his god, who smiled and came close. Stories will get you killed, he murmured in Arin’s ear. Now, you just listen. Listen to me.”

“She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.”

“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”

“I died for beauty, but was scarce”

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

“Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.”

“The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.”

“The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.”