- What sound, scent, or image never fails to take you back in time to a memory of a particular person, place, or experience?
- How have you lived your life: with curiosity, in hot pursuit of the truth? Ambivalent toward the truth? Afraid of what you
might discover if you found out the truth?
- You may have heard the saying “all truth is God’s truth.” Do you agree?
- Is truth good or bad? Moral or immoral?
- How far will you go to pursue truth? At what point does the pursuit become too costly?
- In Chapter 52, Georgie is grappling with whether she can trust Sean. “Everyone trusted someone until they realized they couldn’t.
Everyone thought they knew what love was until they discovered they didn’t. Everyone thought they knew the truth until they
found out it was a lie. But how do you let go of one to take hold of the other?” Have you ever clung to a person who wasn’t
trustworthy, a love that wasn’t true, or an idea that wasn’t honest? Why? What role do the head and the heart play in those
calculations?
- Have you ever had an experience that led you to question everything? How did you distinguish the truth from the lies?
- One of the most difficult challenges we can face is to change a long-held belief to fit a newly acquired set of facts. It’s
less difficult to alter that new set of facts to fit the long-held belief. In other words, it’s much easier to lie to ourselves
than admit that we were wrong about something. Why do you think that is? Can you think of a time when this tension played
out in your life? Which choice did you make?
- How do you define the word heroic?