“Was goodness still good if you hewed it out of tactical necessity? Was there, Baru wondered, any difference between being good and pretending to be good for your own gain, if you took the same actions in the end? Was there any difference between telling the truth unconditionally, and deploying the truth in service of your agenda, if you told the same truth?” TruthGoodnessGoodPretendingTacticsPretendTacticalAgenda Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant
“We all force our true selves into little hashes and show them like passwords. A smile is a hashing function, and a word, and a cry. The cry is not the grief, the word is not the meaning, and smile is not the joy: we cannot run the hash in reverse, we cannot get from the sign to the absolute truth. Maybe the smile is false. Maybe the grief is a lie.” TruthJoyGriefCrySmileCodeLiePassword Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant