“...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss - “...hear rumors and go digging for...” 1

Similar quotes

“When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

Khaled Hosseini
Read more

“Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.”

Don Miguel Ruiz
Read more

“I don't even want to spend the rest of my life with me.. how do you explain to someone you love that you can't give yourself to them because if you did, you're not sure who you'd be giving? That you aren't sure what your own words are worth? You can't tell someone that, especially someone you love. And so you don't.Instead, I do the right thing. I lie.”

Julie Buxbaum
Read more

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

Khaled Hosseini
Read more

“Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.”

Sarah Rees Brennan
Read more