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• Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.830, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

  Margaret Atwood

  Queens, Taken, White

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

  Henry Rollins

  Wish, Would Be, Arms

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• What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Doe, Hiding

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Ideas, Interesting

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• Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

  Voltaire

  Art

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• You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

  Nalini Singh

  Stupid, Way, Enough

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.24, Penguin

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• Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Winter, Weather

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1

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• Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

  Cassandra Clare

  Yellow, Green, Pox

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• 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

  Doe, Looks, Matter

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

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• I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Ceilings, Empty

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

  Jonathan Ames

  Doors, Brain, Down And

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• When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.

  Glenn Beck

  Party, Two, Political

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

  Margaret Haddix

  Sleep, Night, Soldier

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Deceit, Sin, Deceiving

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.117, Xist Publishing

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• When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Passion, Play

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• Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

  Clayton Christensen

  Infidelity, Cost, Dishonesty

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Hate, Dodge, Painful

  Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good to look upon the VIRTUES of those who have gone before; to gain STRENGTH for whatever lies ahead. It is good to REFLECT upon the work of those who labored so hard and gained so little in this world, but out of whose DREAMS and early pains, so well nurtured, has come a great gravest of which we are the beneficiaries. Their tremendous EXAMPLE can become a compelling MOTIVATION for all of us. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Appreciation, Pain

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• Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Drinking, Night, Roles

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

  Ian McDonald

  Fake, Deception, World

  Ian McDonald (2007). “Brasyl”

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• Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

  Ben Elton

  Jealous, Unrequited Love, Passion

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• Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Focus, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Deceit, Way, Facts

  "Notes from underground, White nights, The dream of a ridiculous man, and selections from The House of the dead". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1961.

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• She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.

  Anne Stuart

  Love Is, Knowing, Soul

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