"People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want."

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Source : Cynthia Lord (2012). “Touch Blue”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

Cynthia Lord

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.”
“You're good at love," she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. "I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.”
“If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.”
“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”
“Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.”
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”
“As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.”
“I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.”

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