But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.