Ally Carter Quotes

The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Enlightenment is terror; when you light up the world, you make its filth clearer.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.