Jodi Picoult Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Believe, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hope, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

• The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

  Jodi Picoult

  Truth, Lying, Believe

• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Differences, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Growing Up, Lying

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

• When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Want Something, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Zest, Chocolate

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

• Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Lying, Sucker

• Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Faces, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

• Lie to yourself until it's true.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

• There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Rescue, Greater Good

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.742, Simon and Schuster

• A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Party, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

• don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Doe, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

• And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

  Jodi Picoult

  Truth, Lying, Dishonesty

• Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Once Upon A Time, Between The Lines

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

• Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin

• Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Secret, Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honesty, Real, Lying

• Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Silence, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

• That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Crazy, Lying, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

• I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Would Be, Imagine

• Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Book, Once Upon A Time

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

• Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Fire, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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