“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it’s like you go from one extreme to the next and they’re both worth it, because you wouldn’t see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you’ll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.”

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”

“Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”