Quotes About Deception

I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust -- I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.

This was a different Eve. Gone were the layers of self-protection, the vulnerability, the raw emotion—all of it. "You helped Blake abduct Toby, didn't you?" I said, certainty washing over me like a wave of heat. "I wouldn't have had to," Eve replied, her tone smooth and hard, "if Toby had opened up. If he'd just agreed to bring me here. But he wouldn't.

but at the end of the day, even if you thought that you'd manipulated our grandfather into this, I guarantee that he'd be the one manipulating you.

Asking for a friend," Asher clarified. Then he nudged his best friend. "Henry, my good man, tell Tess she's pretty as a picture when she's preparing to unleash her wrath on the delightfully unsuspecting father of one of our classmates." "Kendrick?" Henry Marquette said. "Yes?" I replied without taking my eyes away from the street. "You are utterly terrifying when you are plotting something.

Your son," I said, "impregnated an underage girl, then got physical with her when she had the audacity to be devastated at the realization that he'd just been using her to get close enough to make a move against Tobias Hawthorne.

She sought Sheffield Grayson out, Avery. The man blamed our family for his nephew's death. He slept with her out of spite. God knows why Skye did it, but I was the result.

If anyone asks," Michael called to him, "your name is Alfred.

Did Jameson tell you that I killed her?

Is it still a lie, if you're masking what matters but what you're saying is technically true?

Is it still a lie," Jameson asked loftily, "if you're masking what matters, but what you're saying is technically true?

Little grudge?" I repeated. The last time I'd been this close to Thea, she had admitted to setting me up to attend my debut in Texas society dressed like a dead girl. "You play mind games. And Rebecca almost got me killed!

Nee, ik heb geweigerd omdat degene die de klacht heeft ingediend, mogelijk iets in mijn kluisje heeft gelegd. - Tess

I was starting to believe that was what our country ran on—secret upon secret upon secret.

it took me years to realize that every piece of treasure he ever gave me was trash.

He'd acted like he wasn't even wet.

Tara hadn't managed to pick his pockets, and Chloe had only halfway seduced him, but Lucy's open adoration and obvious cheerfulness weren't running up against any barriers at all.

I'd been wrong about his eyes. They weren't pools. They were ice.

It couldn't be a coincidence that billionaire Tobias Hawthorne had left his fortune to a stranger who knew his "dead" son.

Heiress, you wound me.

The kind of man who would take a woman—he's no man at all.

I knew the exact moment that Toby saw the trap I had laid. "Horrible girl," he whispered roughly, and the tenderness in his eyes when he said it almost took me down.

One: He's Michael. Two: he's scheduled for a meltdown. Three: Lia had been miss Rosy Sunshine since she got downstairs, and Lia doesn't do roses or sunshine unless she's screwing with someone or deeply upset. -Dean Redding

Reggie was so sick of it all. The things people knew (or thought they knew) about other people. Maybe everyone had a secret life, not just Vera. She suddenly hated all of it. She wanted people to be as see-through as fish tanks, no more murkiness, no misdirection. No lies and bullshit. No secret rooms or lies about being the star of some goddamn play that didn't even exist.

Phoebe realized how very wrong she'd been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she'd grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn't pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.