“Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth?""Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we need to believe in a better truth.""What better truth can there be than truth?”
“Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)”
“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”
“It is better to be hurt with the truth than to be encouraged with lies...”
“People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.”
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”