Lying Quotes - Page 16

• You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

  James Patterson

  Play, Innocent, Oxymoron

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• Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

  Marquis de Sade

  Fate, Cutting, Clouds

  "Eugénie de Franval".

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fighting, Civilization

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

  Hilary Mantel

  Sweet, Cities, Yesterday

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• Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of his threats? (Amanda) Chere, the day I fear something like him is the day I lie down at his feet and hand him the knife to cut my heart out. The only fear I have is getting you back to your sister and convincing High Queen Hard Head to leave off this matter until I can locate Desiderius and send his soul into oblivion where it belongs. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Queens, Heart

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• We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you have a key lying around? (Kyrian) I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At least this time she's not an Amazon princess with an irate mother demanding parts of your body be removed. Two thousand years later, and you're still getting into unbelievable messes. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Princess, Keys

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• All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Love, Hero, Stories

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.274, Dial Press

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• It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Thinking, Men, Should Have

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stress, Trying, Remember

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.26, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I’m impressed. Since we’re not in Miami and you haven’t a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gun, Sea, Snakes

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• It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves to feel better about all the people who kick them in their teeth when it’s just as easy to help a man up as it is to knock him to the ground. That’s why I’ve withdrawn from this world. I don’t want to have to watch my back all the time and I’m tired of trying to figure out if the loyalty someone professes is real and true, or just another lie that will crumble the instant they taste jealousy. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Real, Adversity

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• Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.

  John Connolly

  Song, Real, Book

  "The John Connolly Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts".

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