Quotes About Deception

But I could hear Mitzi nearby. She was still upstairs. If she saw me reading the comic book, she'd run downstairs and tell Dad for sure. Mitzi's hobby is being a snitch.

It was as if she thought life was a game, and she had to psych everyone out so she'd win.

You okay? Fine. Your heart's beating really fast. Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it. He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she'd first met before all the vamp stuff. Yeah, I know it is. Sorry. Just stay behind me if there's trouble. You sound like Shane. Well, he did say he'd kill me if I got you hurt. I'm just looking after my own neck. Liar.

Did that remind anybody else of something? Yes, Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.

Tell me he's not talking to Brandon," Claire said. "Um… Ok. He's not talking to Brandon." "You're lying." "Yeah. He's talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He's not as stupid as he looks, mostly.

There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.

She was poison in a pretty bottle.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

But – Michael, you said you didn't know Oliver, and–" "I didn't, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.

at least this way we're safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO. That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod. Eve said. which is the way they kill you. When you think you're safe.

Ah, I remember now why you ceased to amuse, Myrnin. You use honesy like a club.

And that was all of it. The machine stretched out in an endless, dizzying series of loops and whirls and weird mechanisms, sprouting wires like tree roots. It didn't look real to her. Neither did Myrnin, as he turned to her with a barely concealed red glow in his eyes.

Kisses could lie as well as words.

And so the very institution we thought would bring the most light to the world has instead drowned it in shadows, and claimed that shadow as full sun. And we, poor blind creatures, have believed the lie. It

You may live in your small, dark corner and light a candle and pretend it is the sun; in time, you might even believe it. I certainly cannot stop you. But I will mourn for those you drag into the darkness along with you.

People like to say that cameras don't lie, but they can. And when they do, everyone believes.

No, Kez, don't pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.

You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…

And a hateful little voice whispered deep inside that she'd set him to trick Wolfe, and she was doing the same thing now. Making him believe something that couldn't be true. Making him believe she cared. Doesn't matter, he told that part of him. If she doesn't end up with a collar on her neck, locked in a tower, it doesn't matter how much she lies to me. It's all that matters. She should be free, whatever the costs.

Claire…bitch!'" Her voice sounded raw and hoarse. "You…think this…makes us…friends?'" "God, no,'" Claire said. "But I think you kinda owe me.

Every smile was just mechanics. Every laugh was manufactured. Every public sign of affection was just that: for the public.