Truth Quote by Sarah Addison Allen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

“Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.”

“If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away”

“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”

“If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth,”

“I thought about that while he made his next calls, while I kept on with the newsletters. I thought about it during Sunday service at Word of Life, and during study hours in my room, with the Viking Erin and her squeaky pink highlighter. What it meant to really believe in something—for real. Belief. The big dictionary in the Promise library said it meant”