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“I'd grown to trust Mr. Bradshaw, even though he was the one who had taught me how to lie. Not to mention the day he lectured me on how to get close to someone to find out the truth about them, as i...”
“She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softly. "It's just a code." "No. Everyone lies." I stub the cigarette out. "It's just another language...”
“We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.”
“Were gonna lie when the truth is hard? Thats how this relationship is going to work? All righty, then.”
“...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.”
“I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you li...”
“A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.”
“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”
“I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, th...”
“Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims hearts and minds. Youre not worthy is one of them.”
“It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.”
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”
“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
“Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
“Liars make the best promises.”
