“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”

“The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?"I thought we had been."But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!”

“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.”

“Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life's work.”

“Caught like a fly,In a web of your lies,It's truth be told now,Or it's meet your demise,So how did it feel?When you held the knife,That you stuck right in my back,A thousand times?”