Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. BOB MARLEY Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. ORSON SCOTT CARD It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted w... KHALED HOSSEINI Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always tru... MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO It hurt more than I thought it was going to, MARDY FISH Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth wil... ANTHONY LICCIONE The truth may hurt once, a lie will hurt everytime it is remembered. AUTHOR UNKNOWN Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i... GARY F EVANS... You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. BOB MARLEY I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why?? It's the truth one road and tha... DEYTH BANGER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i... GARY F EVANS... It was pretty tough. The injury hurt even more when we lost that game. Then, it hurt worse when we l... HILLARY HUGHES Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good. LAUREN MYRACLE You own the first day of your life. You own the last. And you own everything in between. KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN I wasn't really worried about the first knockdown, ... That was a flash knockdown. But I saw him on ... JEFF FENECH Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it ... TAMMARA WEBBER When it happened, I went in and they said, 'OK, we'll say your knee was hurt,' but my knee wasn't hu... ARTHUR RHODES He turned to crime, and we had an opportunity to stop it. He was robbing banks with a gun. He could ... CLAY GINGLEN It looked worse than it actually was. I was stunned a bit, but not hurt. It was my mistake; I should... WESTON DRESSLER [As revealing as anything in Fowler's autobiography is the claim that his financial advisor, George ... ROBBIE FOWLER An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacce... JOHN STEINBECK Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against childr... NEAL SHUSTERMAN [As revealing as anything in Fowler's autobiography is the claim that his financial advisor, George ... ROBBIE FOWLER Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to hims... NEIL GAIMAN Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???... DEYTH BANGER ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture... JEANNETTE WALLS I was trying to be light on the one that I hurt. I was favoring it a whole lot, and it was making my... ENDIA WORD The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always ... MICHAEL FRANTI But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. KHALED HOSSEINI I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt... VERONICA WEBB ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well RICHARD L TORRES The absolute truth is a wicked sort of rush. It’s far more amusing than any lie. Both have the pot... TANYA THOMPSON Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that. CHARLES MARTIN Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn’t let go. Caring hurt more than a knife t... V.E. SCHWAB If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. CHRISTINE FEEHAN The start hurt us. It was probably a little bit of everything. ...It took us a little too long to ge... JASON KOEHNKE But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people an... TERRY PRATCHETT It hurt, it hurt me. It was somebody I wasn't going to see again. AL KRUEGER Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my c... MAURICE SENDAK When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, c... MATT DILLON It was dislocated, but I didn't know it, ... My adrenaline was pumping, and I knew it hurt, but I ha... ANDY VAN SLYKE Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot... DONNIE VAN HOOK It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies. JEFFREY EUGENIDES [An attorney for Ladner said yesterday that he could not comment on the statement.] I haven't seen i... DAVID OGDEN Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more... HARUKI MURAKAMI I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN He was fortunate to stay on the pitch. I don't think it was a malicious arm he raised to hurt somebo... DAVID HODGSON It was nothing. Right after that happened he looked at me and said, 'That didn't hurt me. I just did... GEORGES LARAQUE Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Me and my mom were real close, ... When [her death] first happened, I was more mad than hurt. But si... DARREN SPROLES She's a great player, so when you lose someone like that, it's always going to hurt a little bit, bu... AMY SANDERS She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it. DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels. KYLIE SCOTT When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... CHRISTINA ENGELA I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another. FAITH N. To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ... NEIL GAIMAN There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat... WILL ROGERS She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f... SARAH DESSEN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN ... He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into... SUSAN COOPER Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. Your call to continue with... TREVON CLARK I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another. FAITH N. It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. MELISSA DE LA CRUZ VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM
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