“You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Source: City of Glass
“Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.”
Source: Bring Up the Bodies
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