Blunt Quotes

“May we not waver to say a blunt “No” when push comes to shove. Once we handle the truth, it must be without “ifs” and “buts.” The air ought to be clean and the water clear. Since haggling with transparency is not in the cards, let us step down from the traditional “It Is What It Is” and definitively go for resilience. ("Resilience")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What's wrong with my proposition?"
Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“We probably shouldn't be friends," I told her, stretching out on the sofa. "I've been thinking about it, and I see no reason to continue.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Why did Nicky call me the Baby Killer?" Kiara sniffled.
"Because she is a bitch," Leontes said.
Jaeger gave him a chastising look. "She's dead."
"Dying did not make her any less of a bitch," Leontes replied.”
― A.E. Kirk, Midnight Poison

“You can't be spontaneous within reason.”
― Brittany DeLaBarrera

“You will always face difficulties in prayer. Just accept it.”
― John Bartunek, The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer

“You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.”
“It is all I have.”
“Find more”
― Jessica Park

“The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Insincerity was taxing once you’d breathed the refreshing air of artless candor.”
― Penny Reid, The Player and the Pixie

“Mean people are no fun.”
― Thom Filicia

“There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“I wish I could have told you how much talking and writing to you meant to me all year. How you were my bullshit detector. How you listened and kept me true, even when I wanted to block my ears, because you had no filter between your thoughts and your mouth. How you were my best friend, and how it was only because of you that I never felt isolated or desperate to attach myself to anyone at Laurinda.”
― Alice Pung, Laurinda

“Jesus is exactly what I would hope God would be: a blunt-speaking, underdog-loving, field-leveling, jaw-droppingly brilliant, authority-challenging, short-story-telling, self-sacrificing, bring-the-children-to-Me . . . healer.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.”
― Sophie Masson, 1914

“Then she told me, “You have changed my son.” Her candid tone was blunt, and I loved her directness, unapologetic as the weather.”
― Aspen Matis

“I never wanted you to not be around.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“Truth is the first casualty of war.”
― Sophie Masson, 1914

“Ironically, blunt people make the sharpest blows.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Be direct.”
― Steven Magee

“Are you always so confident?”
“Every second of the day.”
― L.J. Shen, Playing with Fire

“You see, humans shrunk themselves when talking. Traditionally, one must succumb to the correspondence of politeness and must be careful not to step over anyone’s toes. This meant nodding your head at rather unthoughtful, sporadic moments, raising your voice an octave, and repeating the last few words a person said to assure them that you were respectfully listening. Everyone shrunk, but she kept. If she did not want to listen, Soriah would tell you. If she didn’t know what you were saying, she’d stop you and ask you to repeat yourself. Many people didn’t like that. It was a difficult, naked territory to be in—to be told by someone they weren’t listening to you, but she was a conversational nudist. Soriah withstood the awkwardness of confrontation, the nervousness of acknowledgment, and lived in it, and almost enjoyed it. Even if you tried, no preparation could ever prepare you in a conversation with her. She was point-blank. Her beauty was that of a certain wildness and her choice of conversation was just as predictable as the heartbeat in your chest in which she too controlled.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Most people want to be told the truth … most of the time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Why are you here?'
...
'My husband,' the word poisonous and foul on my tongue, 'experimented on and then cobbled together dead body parts to create a monster. Once that was accomplished, he went on to murder his own brother and frame my best friend for the murder so that she would be hanged. Then he tried to use her body to practice his dark science on, in preparation for eventually changing me from living to dead, and back again to a new form of being that would never corrupt or die or be parted from him. I told him I was not interested in being his wife under those particular circumstances.'

The women's eyes were wide, and she scooted several inches away from me, pushing herself along the floor”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“While ignoring her and lighting my blunt, I feel each puff closing like a fatal noose around my neck. It reeks of death.”
― Pranay Patil, Burgundy Winters: in Europe

“You're not going to make it. Best accept it now and not take up more of my time.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Rysen looked like he was about to pass out when he saw how much weight you’ve lost.” I’ve lost weight? I snort and take his hand.

“Charming. You know you’re not supposed to mention a lady’s weight to her, right?”

“I’m a pirate, not a gentleman.” He pulls me up. “You want nice words and manners? Ask Kier or Klaus.”
― Marie Mistry, Pirate Witch