“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.[The human element]”
“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
“With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.”
“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”
“Tact is just lying for adults.”