"I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company."

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Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “Tenderness”, p.32, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Robert Cormier

#Hurt Quotes #Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.”
“Killing became the same thing as having sex.”
“Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.”
“When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.”
“I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.”
“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.”
“I'm not just buying a car - I'm buying a lifestyle!”
“Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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