Quotes About Deception

My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more that I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore. If Oak is masked, I am a face with all the skin ripped off. Over and over, I have told myself that I need to guard against my own yearnings, but that hasn't worked.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?

I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another. You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It's not like you're actually currently betraying him.

Perhaps it is Oak who is the fool, who caught a wolf and thought that by putting it in a gown and speaking to it as though it were a girl, it would become one.

I expect her to say The Liar. She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. "What else? The Queen.

Sometimes lying is a real pleasure.

Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Don't." She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. "You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you're never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.

She can't help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?

But i am going to take out her stitches, and I dont think youd want to watch that.¨ ¨Oh I dont know,¨ I say. ¨Maybe he´d like to hear me scream.¨ ¨I would,¨ Cardan says, standing. ¨And perhaps one day I will.¨ On his way out, his hand goes to my hair. A light touch, barely there, and then gone. Page 166