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Food is the substance that keeps you alive, so I would think you would choose the kind that does you the most good. Instead, you choose what pleases the palate.
He creates words to blanket his evil. This is an old trick. If you want to get away with lying, first change the language.
chesed shel emet. A true and loving kindness.
“When you do something for someone that can never be repaid. Like cleaning the graves of the dead. That is a true and loving kindness.”
“It’s easy to be nice when you get something in return. It’s harder when nobody knows the good you are doing except yourself.”
Would a lamb be protected from a wolf simply by walking alongside it?
Evil seeks the dark. Not because it is ashamed. Darkness is simply more efficient. Fewer complications. Less outrage.
Weddings forged in love are about planning for the future; weddings forged in fear are about surviving it.
just because you forget about a lie does not mean it forgets about you.
Who among us could stare at such a blazing sun of accountability and not go blind?
But those who do you the most harm, if you survive them, can inadvertently lead you to good.
“Never be ashamed of a scar. In the end, scars tell the story of our lives, everything that hurt us, and everything that healed us.”
By the time you share what a loved one longs to hear, they often no longer need it.
If you stand for something during a war, you are going to pay a price.”
It is hard to conceive that, even as the concentration camps were burned and abandoned, those who had survived them were not done with their torture.
Tell the world what happened here.”
People often practice their lies when facing a confrontation.
But the truth of the death camps was incomprehensible to most. A lie of collaboration was easier to accept.
The word home had been blown up letter by letter.
Psychologists call it “pathological lying.” It refers to lies that do not serve a purpose, or even help the person telling them. They are simply choices made out of a disorder, a mental illness, or, in Nico’s case, because the trauma of truth was so blinding it burned his eyes to me forever.
the lies spouses tell one another are most often omissions.
When it comes to lies, governments can outlast anyone.
the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark.
Fannie, if she were being honest, had never truly loved Sebastian. She’d run to him as shelter. She’d embraced him as relief.
A wedding gave meaning to their survival.
The truth of love is that when it fades away, you don’t really care less. You don’t care at all.
His mind was not his own. War still takes hostages, long after it is over.
all humans are inclined to hate others if they believe they are the cause of their unhappiness.
they sang his same song of racial purity, and the need to purge the impure before they ruined life for the deserving.
came from the Greek word holocauston, which means a burned sacrifice.
When you lie about everything, you belong to nothing.
he layered more and more sandbags between his past and his present, building a dam high enough to stop even a massive flood of memories.
Whatever Nico had suffered, it clearly left him more comfortable with the dead than the living.
