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"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
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"Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."
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"You couldn't listen to honest man whom you hate."
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"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."
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"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
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"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."
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"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
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"I won't lie-I don't."
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"If you say that you have never lied at all,then you give too much trust on anybody."
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"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."
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"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
Truth


"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
Honesty


"I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back."
Decision


"Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak."
Destiny


"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."
Order


"The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote."
Emotion


"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."
Emotion


"Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material."
Education


"Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone."
Memory


"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
Perception
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