Lying Quotes - Page 40

• History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Survivor, Defeated

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.56, Random House

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• The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

  Veronica Roth

  Secret, Desire, Why Not

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• ...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Ocean, Heart

  Deb Caletti (2004). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

  Will Eisner

  Communication, Independent, Two

  Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

  Milan Kundera

  Want, Madmen, Ifs

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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

  Jack Kerouac

  Sides, Remember, Dharma Bums

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.61, Penguin

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• Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—” The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. “I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.

  Marissa Meyer

  Sorry, Fall, Eye

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• There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.

  Chad Kultgen

  Lies We Tell Ourselves, Important, Forgotten

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• I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Cutting, White, Evil

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• I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on my face at your feet and worship you"-he dropped the towel and reached out, taking me by the shoulders-"and still I want to force ye to your knees before me, and hold ye there wi' me hands tangled in your hair, and your mouth at my service...and I want both things at the same time, Sassenach.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Fall, Simple, Hair

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.930, Dell

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• "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar."

  Joan Bauer

  Liars, Evil, Triumph

  "Squashed". Book by Joan Bauer, 1992.

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• Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, Nice, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2017). “The Cat that Walked by Himself (English French Edition illustrated): Le Chat qui s’en va tout seul (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.3, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

  John Green

  Boys, Simple, Truth Is

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.181, Penguin

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• Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

  Kate Morton

  Feelings, Littles, Way

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• ...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Gowns, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin Group

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• Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

  Louise Penny

  Years, Forgiving, Hours

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.657, Macmillan

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• Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

  Michael Ende

  Reality, Names, Giving

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• Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late

  Rob Sheffield

  Home, Touching, Hot

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.63, Crown Archetype

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• He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

  Holly Black

  Liars, Believe, Lasts

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.

  Nalini Singh

  Leopards, Want

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Hostage to Pleasure”, p.283, Penguin

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• The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Responsibility, Roots, Inability

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

  Susan Sontag

  Morning, Sleep, Might

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.171, Macmillan

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• Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, Blessing, Evil

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

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• Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Honesty, Failing, Lifetime

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• I don’t want your lying kindness. Sure, you’ll smile and be so sweet to me that I’ll trust you, but the minute I don’t give you everything you want the instant you demand it, you’ll turn on me and try to crush me. You’re just like everyone else in the world. No one matters but you. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Crush, Sweet, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.20, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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