John Christopher said this quote

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

~ John Christopher

Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.

~ John Christopher

He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.'And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?'In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.

~ John Christopher

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

~ John Christopher