The Truth Commission Quotes

“As you know, there are several classes of truth. There are the truths that pour out on confessional blogs and YouTube channels. There are the supposed truths exposed in gossip magazines and on reality television, which everyone knows are just lies in truth clothing. Then there are the truths that show themselves only under ideal circumstances: like when you are talking deep into the night with a friend and you tell each other things you would never say if your defenses weren't broken down by salty snacks, sugary beverages, darkness, and a flood of words. There are the truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart. Truths like those are rare and getting rarer.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“I think we learn the truth about ourselves by telling it to someone else.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“When you tell a story, you shape the truth.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“She is, like anyone worth knowing, many things at once.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“We got up and smiled at each other. His eyes were lovely, and I was reminded of a line in book I read once, that God exists in the spaces between people.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“We got up and smiled at each other. His eyes were lovely, and I was reminded of a line in a book I read once, that God exists in the spaces between people.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“I hate the way kids want all the attention. It's like I'm not even there when there's a baby in the room.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“I want to ask someone the truth, I think truth is what has been missing in my life. Well, it's one of the things that has been missing, along with a sense of purpose and positive self-esteem.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“The pieces don't fit perfectly together and don't tell the whole story. Only the viewer can say if I succeeded.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“There is nothing to be gained by trying to change reality. I know this. Completely. And yet. And. Yet.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“My life is an issue in my life.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“The situation was a mess. It's way easier when you have someone to blame. We want a victim and a villain and a simple story and for everyone to play their role.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It’s the personal lives that get messy. Dusk,”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. “Hmmm,”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“Our families are often the thing that keep us stuck,”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“She's extremely un-suburban and charismatic and has this way of making you feel you're the only thing standing between her and death due to boredom.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“I believe the technical term is "space cadet." But she is the kind of space cadet many people aspire to be. My sister is fully alive to each moment and each observation.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“Maybe it's an artistic genius thing. People who go so deep inside themselves, especially when they're working, that they seem like sleepwalkers when they emerge. Traces of unconsciousness seem to cling to them, lending them an otherworldly sheen.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers--no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription... (39)”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission

“When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does--distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).”
― Susan Juby, The Truth Commission