“But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn’t tell it, the Learning Room doesn’t teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
“We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you’ve done. When you will not remember who you are or what you’ve done.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
“Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It's one of the things I hold against it.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
“You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
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