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• I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

  Susanna Clarke

  Magic, Magician, Knows

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In our past lies our future. By our own hands and decisions we will be damned and we will be saved. Whatever you do, put forth your best effort even if all you're doing is chasing a never ending rainbow. You might never reach the end of it, but along the way you'll meet people who will mean the world to you and make me...mories that will keep you warm on even the coldest nights

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Past, Night

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• There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, People, Safety

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.864, Dell

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• Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.

  Ally Carter

  Believe, Boys, People

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only The Good Spy Young”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Feel Better, People, Sick

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.246, Yearling

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• The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mountain, Depth, Valleys

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

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• Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.

  William Wordsworth

  Book, Age, Gold

  William Wordsworth (1841). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.135

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• He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Sleep, Ifs, Attolia

  "The Queen of Attolia (Queen's Thief, Book 2)". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

  Anne Stuart

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Anne Stuart (2008). “Fire and Ice”, p.104, MIRA

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• All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Memories, Night

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• The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Fate, Past

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

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• I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

  Patrick Ness

  Believe, World, Swamps

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Order, Brain

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

  Halldór Laxness

  Facts, Remember, Sincerity

  Halldór Laxness (1972). “Christianity at Glacier”

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• It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything.” - Amelia to Poppy

  Lisa Kleypas

  Husband, Grateful, Feelings

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• It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Thinking, Bullshit, Impossible

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

  Megan McCafferty

  Kind, Crocodiles

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

  Shan Sa

  Regret, Sadness, Hair

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• You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Stories, Answers

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• You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brain, Causes, Disorder

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.121, Macmillan

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• All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.

  Mike Carey

  Heart, Fire, Light

  "Lucifer Book Five".

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• Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to Firestar. The Clan leader's eyes stretched wide in surprise. "Stormfur...and Brook! What are you doing here?" "There'll be time to explain later," Stormfur meowed. "For now, Firestar, put us to work.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Leader, Tails

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• And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lies We Tell Ourselves, Soul, Nero

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.385, Macmillan

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