Hard Truths Quotes

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1

“Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.”
― Hailey Edwards

“He is a stone, incapable of feeling anything, and I don't like being reminded that he's also human. I don't like to be reminded that we love the same person.”
― Laura Sebastian, Ash Princess

“It is the fundamental unfairness of parenthood, that if we do our jobs well, the deepest bond we are given will walk out the door with a wave over the shoulder.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“I can't find a man I want, and I'm beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I'm holding out for something that doesn't even exist." She'd voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she'd done in the past few months, she'd not once been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn't had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn't sure she'd ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and unforgiven, and some things are lost and never found.”
― Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

“Being young was undignified. Being young and in love was worse.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon’s Ashes

“One may question whether real civilisation is so safely afloat that we can afford to use our pens for boring holes in the bottom of it.”
― F. L. Lucas

“Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!”
― Izey Victoria Odiase, 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development

“The problem with doing the right thing,” Donovan continues, his expression intense and his voice low, “Doing right and playing by the rules only works if everyone does it”
― H.A. Wills, Free Spirit

“I know the ingredients that will conjure luck and I can brew a potion to talk to the dead, but no one ever taught me how to speak a truth that is uncomfortable.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Wayward Witch

“Si ambisce alla tranquillità, non alla felicità. La felicità è dei superbi, chi aspira ad essa non sa che è possibile solo raramente. La felicità è una conseguenza, non uno stato d'animo.”
― Andrea Pomella, Il dio disarmato

“The road to recovery for me was paved with hard truths, not denials and lies.”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“I found myself wanting to go to him and apologize for leaving him. I wanted to tell him I was there for him, ready to
listen or simply offer silent comfort. But I was too emotionally invested. I got wounded too easily. I was too afraid of rejection. And knowing he wouldn’t let me get too close only intensified that fear. Even if we did figure things out, I’d only tear myself apart trying to live with just the bits and pieces he decided to share with me.”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“People like to talk a big game. They may talk about religion or magic and superstition but in the end, this is merely a way for them to feel the possibility of power without having to ever see it or touch it. As I told you, a part of them knows that the unfathomable is around them and yet another part of them denies this to keep the stability of their lives. One belief is pitted against another and in the end, people are stuck, stationary.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“In this case Karen’s child was her story. And all the world was waiting greedily for its deliverance even if they didn’t yet know its name or the uncomfortable shape of it and the peculiar contours that altogether were sure to test the foundations upon which they had built their holiest of houses and coziest of dens. They only knew that all of history was in want of a definitive accounting and that such had already been written and then ensepulchered by prophets unsung and that their eventual unveiling was nothing less than the birthright of all humankind.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“I’ll take a hard truth over a gentle lie, every single time.
I write to make peace with reality and to make peace with the way no peace can be made.
I’m still learning that wanting a thing to be true does not make it so.
Sometimes the wildest choice I make is to stay entirely still.
My contract with self involves saying yes when I can, my hard no's are few. I will never stop exploring the edges.
I believe endlessly, in a way that is utterly unchangeable, in the power of love.
I believe just as strongly that when I wander, I will return to myself, to the center, to the home I have built in this body of mine.
I no longer ask for permission, but I often still forget that the permission lives in me.
Everything I write is an invitation: not just into my truth, but into your own.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“When reality hits hard
and battles turn into wars to fight,
What story do you tell yourself
to sleep at night?”
― Ritu Negi, Collywobbles

“Intelligence doesn’t get you anywhere. I think…all it does, that knowledge, it just makes you awake to see the world for what it really is.”
― fleabagshair, this is how you lose the time war

“The system isn’t broken. It was built to keep you broke. Learn the rules—or keep losing by default.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“The game is rigged—but not for the reasons you think. It’s rigged to reward those who don’t play by the script.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“The rules you’ve been taught about success weren’t designed for your success. They were designed for your compliance.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“Voices we prefer to ignore may speak words we need to hear.”
― Pamela Cox

“The rules are simple. The courage to follow them? That’s the hard part.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“Do you ever think about just asking her, point-blank?"
Nick grunted. "I recommend that if you ask a question like that, just make sure you're really, truly ready to hear the answer.”
― Suzanne Rindell, Summer Fridays