“She was very clever. She told the best lie of all – the truth.”
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.”
“You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it ain’t even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.”
“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.”
“I’ve tried to believe, but I don’t, I can’t, and there’s no use pretending.”
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
“All this happened, more or less.”
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”