Quotes About Deception

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they thought she was ice they'd be afraid to touch her.

Love was the thing that tore you apart; it made you believe the lies you were told, obvious as they might be. It was nearly impossible to see your own fate while it was happening to you. It was only after, when what's done had been done, that one's vision cleared.

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.

Language was everything. Trust was for fools. Love came and went. Words could be stolen.

You think you know somebody, but what do you know? Only what they want to show you. Remember, it's what's inside that matters.

What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned and may not have even known when they were married. She used to whisper it to him sometimes, while he was fucking her, and he had to turn off his mind every time she did that. For some reason that declaration had seemed like a curse to him back then; he couldn't even hear it spoken aloud

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth. Only days afterward, each person who had filled out this list was deported to a death camp.

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out and a lie is always a lie no matter how prettily told.

Some people are who you think they are. Some people hide the wolf inside of them, but you can hear them howl.

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.