“What would happen if we spoke the truth?”
“What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.”
“If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid.”
“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.”
“And yet--we wonder.What if how we are told it happened is not how it happened? What if the story we have been told is just that? A story. Not the truth.”