Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
Catch Me While I'm Sleeping, written by Pink and Linda Perry
Song lyrics, Try This (2003)
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
Catch Me While I'm Sleeping, written by Pink and Linda Perry
Song lyrics, Try This (2003)
“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Third Book (1546), Chapter 52 : How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that the fire is not able to consume it
Context: I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.
Morrissey (1959) English singer
Interview by Chris Heath, Star Hits (1987)
About the Notre Dame fire, Odds & Ends
“It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself.”
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
The Master and Lyra, in Ch. 4 : The Alethiometer
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)
Context: "Lyra, I'm going to give you something, and you must promise to keep it private. Will you swear to that?"
"Yes," Lyra said.
He crossed to the desk and took from a drawer a small package wrapped in black velvet. When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disk of gold and crystal. It might have been a compass or something of the sort.
"What is it?" she said.
"It's an alethiometer. It's one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private. It would be better if Mrs. Coulter didn't know about it. Your uncle — "
"But what does it do?"
"It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself. Now go — it's getting lighter — hurry back to your room before anyone sees you."
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
“You inflict eternal punishment on people,” Julie countered.
“Merely because it’s our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”
Terry Brooks The Wishsong of Shannara
Source: The Wishsong of Shannara