467 quotes found
“When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.”
“After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.”
“I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.”
“Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.”
“...I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings...”
“It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness," she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous”
“Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportan...”
“The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.”
“Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.”
“Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies?”
“When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.”
“One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.”
“Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.”
“A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.”
“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”
“But some people, and especially very young people, dont think anythings worth believing unless its hard to believe.”
“The best lie was always just short of the truth.”
“Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant.""Is it only lies that are Pleasant?""Usually. That's why pe...”
“It feels nice to emerge from the lies.”
“But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.”
