We can’t see the true characters of those who lurk in the shade until they are exposed to the light…

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

People demand the truth! But when the truth is told, they demand it's false.

You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.

If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any given time. Like yin and yang, truth and lies are inseparable, each containing a seed of the other, no words are ever entirely true or entirely untrue.