Better to lie and be believed than tell the truth and be thought a liar.
-me
I once saw this in a list of ‘things children said’, so I don’t have anyone to attribute it to other than to say the source stated it was from a five year old boy. But it stuck with me, so I’m going to share it.
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
Also from a list of “things children said”:
When you pick up a doughnut, you pick up the hole, too.
“No, I don’t believe in ghosts. But I am afraid of them,”–Edith Wharton
“Let us cross the river and rest in the shade under the trees.”–Last words of Stonewall Jackson
“Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.”–Voltaire
“Dare to be cautious!”–Walter Mondale
“I do not use drugs. I AM drugs!”–Salvador Dali
He was wonderful in Band Wagon and American in Paris as well.
"later that night
I held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere"
Warsan Shire