“It occurs to me now that it isn't that I was always certain there was no truth to the rumor; it was that I didn't want to acknowledge the possibility there could be any truth to it.”
“Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all?”
“I don't really care what people say about me. I'm fine with lies and rumors. It's the truth I don't want being told.”
“Truth was, I didn't really want to die today. I was in the middle of a really good book, and being alive had always worked out for me. . .”
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”
“The truth is that I told Lucius Kennet and Silas to kidnap you for me, but I thought they could do it without using any horrid stratagems! That was fair enough! There could be no possible objection, for how could I kidnap you myself?”