Lies Quotes

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Cassandra Clare
“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”
Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

Shannon L. Alder
“Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning, or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations.”
Shannon l. Alder

Brandon Sanderson
“It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.”
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .”
Joss Whedon

George R.R. Martin
“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Dee Remy
“Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees”
Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

J.K. Franko
“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”
J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“La mentira es el único privilegio del hombre sobre todos los animales" - Crimen y Castigo”
Fiodor M. Dostoievski

Steven Decker
“I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there. And maybe not even then if he restricts our access to the outside world of 2253.”
Steven Decker, Time Chain

J.K. Franko
“Mary Miracle would always recall with clarity the moment she decided to kill her husband.”
J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

Karl Braungart
“Jesus, I wonder if that sound was our listening receiver falling to the floor.”
Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

Karl Braungart
“This assignment is my duty to perform for the US Army. My job is outside your command, my friend. You know my security clearance level remains the same. Copying the SCI is a safety measure, in case there is an electrical glitch. So, I believe we’ve talked enough about this subject. Agree?”
Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

Lauren Oliver
“Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.”
Lauren Oliver, Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven, and Alex

Shannon L. Alder
“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.”
Shannon L. Alder

Kate Atkinson
“You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.”
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
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Liane Moriarty
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”
Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

Tom  Baldwin
“ If they come—whoever they are—will sorely wish they hadn’t!”
Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

Criss Jami
“I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Shaun Jeffrey
“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.”
Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult

Tom  Baldwin
“ “Well, Mr. George, I’d say that’s a long way up for us to be worried about a wee 30 feet from away down here?... I say we grant the man his error. The sky will not be scratched, and I assure you, pigeons won’t roost that high! These are things that happen...”
Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

Rory Power
“Usually, it was an accident. A lie I never set out to tell. A trick I never meant to play. I’d open my mouth, and something strange would come out, new and not mine. Like there was someone else inside.”
Rory Power, Wilder Girls

Sharon Carter
“Great, she didn't lie to me. "Mind if I tag along with you? I would love to have some company. Please don't say no. I don't know if I can take it if you turn me down, beloved," he spoke inaudibly. "Remember the last time we were at an art gallery together?" he asked. "Sure I do," she remarked, walking slowly. Wish I hadn't gone anywhere with you, Creepville!”
Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

Robert Fanney
“Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams -- that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale. ”
Robert Fanney

Charles Bukowski
“I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself with sex.

the bottle is damned faithful, he said,
the bottle will not lie”
Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Holly Black
“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”
Holly Black, White Cat

Stephen King
“I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?”
Stephen King, The Long Walk

John Arbuthnot
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
John Arbuthnot

Joan Gelfand
“You would never know by looking at them, but Hope’s lips are the softest, juiciest, most kissable lips ever. She thinks there’s nothing special, just like she thinks that most of her outstanding features are standard operating equipment, but someday, Doug will tell her—hers are the lips men kill for. Hope’s smell and her body are familiar and unfamiliar at once—like a whisper or a dream. Her back is more muscular, her arms thinner than he remembers. None of it matters. He loved her then and he loves her now.”
Joan Gelfand, Extreme