“There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.”
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day
“Everything is fine, nobody is happy...”
“Çünkü akıl susmuş, geriye yalnız kalp kalmıştır.
Ve kalbin bildiği tek şey vardır: Sevmek ve vermek.”
Source: Şah. Mat. Aşk.: Bazen bir hamle, bir ömrü değiştirir
“I love you. You're the only one." She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.”
Source: Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
“I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.”
Source: Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal
“Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.”
“Don’t be deceived; who they say you are, is not who you become. You become who you think you are. You take the chair in your own programmings!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“There are three lies in life,” Sutherland said to his young companion, whose first night this was in the realm of homosexuality and whose introduction to it Sutherland had taken upon himself to supervise. “One, the check is in the mail. Two, I will not come in your mouth. And three, all Puerto Ricans have big cocks,” he said.”
Source: Dancer from the Dance