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Quotes About Deception

there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.
~ Sherman Alexie
And trust me, there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.
~ Sherman Alexie
Nobody knew the truth. Of course, you can't lie forever. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad.
~ Sherman Alexie
Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.
~ Sherman Alexie
There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yes, he's a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he's on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I'm making real progress though. (Caleb)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lovey-dovey bullshit. Now let me tell you about what happens when you betray everything you hold dear and the bitch doesn't return the favor. Oh, wait, you know that lesson already. The problem is you take the leap and you don't know until it's too late to pull back if you're going to land on a foam-covered mattress or jagged rocks where you lie impaled, slowly bleeding and wishing you'd just die already. (Jaden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Please nothing, she's a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Guys, we're so screwed. The women know we didn't go hunting. (Kyrian) You think? What idiot came up with that lie? (Zarek) I'm not an idiot. And it's not like I lied. I just omitted what exactly we were hunting and where we were doing it. (Talon) Like your wives wouldn't know better? When was the last time Mr. Armani hunted something that didn't have a price tag on it? Oh, and the loafers and trousers are perfect camouflage. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it's always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian) I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron) I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Clean it up, hell. Do you know how many cameras just caught your stunt-jump from upstairs? My mom now thinks you're on the drugs she suspects Kyrian sells. We're screwed. My life is toast. I'm about to get lectured about working for drug dealers…again. My mom, bless her heart, is so goofy, she doesn't even realize she works for bears. I'm so screwed. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Double-knotted to a bedpost, not that it's any of your business. That boy was always too trusting for his own good. You'd think by now he'd know better. But no. He's got to be stupid. Personally, I'd tie the bitch up, muzzle her, and ride her around the room with spurs on, but no one ever asks my opinion, do they? No. What do I know? I'm only omniscient. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't ask me any more questions, Keller. I'm just going to lie to you and I'd rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Daimons, vampires, ghouls, whatever you want to call them. They suck your blood and your soul and leave you with nothing. Kind of like lawyers. (Selena)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon