“Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.”
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
“Wizard's Tenth RuleWillfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.”
“If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”
“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”