“Our parents have high hopes for us, and they're waiting for us to achieve something in life. young ones, you should don't let them down in life. At least we all have to be strong for those who love us, to protect them, this will be a Real.”
Source: Sukoon
“Honesty and honor had a new meaning now; a good name was more precious than gold; for once lost, money could not buy it back; and faith in one another made life smooth and happy as nothing else could do.”
Source: Little Men
“Honesty very rarely, if ever, ruins good things”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“Nat felt the difference in the way they spoke of Demi and himself, and would have given all he had or ever hopes to have been so trusted; for he had learned how easy it is to lose the confidence of others, how very, very hard it is to win it back, and truth became to him a precious thing since he had suffered from neglecting it.”
Source: Little Men
“People don’t say what they mean. They say what makes them likable, and expect you to guess the rest.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“Why are autistic people called abnormal… when we’re the only ones who speak the truth?”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“I became the girl who made people uncomfortable just by asking them to be honest.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“It is hard to keep secrets,' James said. 'Both for those who do not know the truth, but also those who keep them.”
Source: Chain of Iron
“I’ve seen a perfectly capable, honest man, time and again, run against an illiterate trickster, and get beaten.”
“I always say, there is no such thing as a basic human right. The only rights you have are the ones the guys with the bullets allow you to have. That is the honest brutality of the world; and it’s the brutal honesty that’s hard to say and harder to hear.”