Truth Quotes

"Sad things happened all the time."

"They were aware that they were not the only people in the world."

"The world was not always as it appeared."

"Some people must live with regret forever."

"Nothing ever really goes away. It just hides."

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

"A person is flesh and blood, and blood will tell."

"The truth is, I've always known."

"She understood then what she had been mourning."

"She had been playing a part, and had forgotten that it was a part."

"Decent husbands didn't do these things. Decent men didn't."

"This is how it is done. This is how one is supposed to live."

"This was the condition of her life now."

"She was a harami. She had always been one."

"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it"

"We lived, as usual, by ignoring"

"She had learned long ago that people were not what they seemed."

"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible."

"Conscience, I says to myself, let up on me—it ain't too late yet."

"I says to myself, this is another one of his lies."

"Context is all."

"She understood that the search for truth had left her mind worn out"

"A man should never trust his own memory because it will deceive him"

"I am not an advocate of senseless optimism."

"He had wasted half his life searching for the truth and the other half hiding it."

"It always came back to this. All the other things—the ministering to Jalil's wives, the rules of custom, decorum—they were just dressing."

"It had occurred to her that he wasn't wicked, not really. He was just a man."

"She understood then what Noor had said about the weight of secrets."

"She had come to understand that the lie was the beginning of everything."