Quotes About Deception

Sadie loathed games where the box art was spectacular but when you went to play the actual game, it looked nothing like the concept art.

But people —the ordinary, the decent and basically honest— couldn't get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming, that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.

For instance, your life is a lie, and she never lies. When she heard the story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, she barely understood it. "Of course he told the truth. The chopping down of a cherry tree would be a very big thing to cover up," she said.

People tell boring lies about politics

On the day she found Daedalus blowing the glass heart, she had suspected Sam, but she had also allowed herself not to know. She wanted to play more than she wanted to know. Sadie told Sam he had tricked her, but the truth was, she had tricked herself. It was embarrassing how much that silly, exquisite world had meant to her. A year and a half later, she

Sadie felt as if she had been tricked into behaving amorally.

Lambiase is recently divorced. He had married his high school sweetheart, so it took him a long time to realize that she was not, in fact, a sweetheart or a very nice person at all.

Well, I'm warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.

Yo podría ser un mal libro con una cubierta bonita [...]. —Nada de eso. Llevo años viéndote en la estantería. He leído la sinopsis y las citas de la contraportada.

lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

This was a hard-won but brilliant education: I had realized, as life is always willing to instruct, that the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what holds up the rest. The realized life versus the external picture of it: the assumption and projections that we all make about other people's lives.

For years the psychic balm of alcohol—its holy grail certainty that it could take me through anything—eclipsed the hangovers and emerging fear that I was in trouble. I had a silver pocket flask that I filled with whiskey for backup drinks; I figured if I looked the part, then I could get away with the reality.

SCRATCH A FANTASY and you'll find a nightmare." This was one of Caroline's favorite sayings, spoken originally in regard to a mutual friend, a woman who had chased a dream life abroad and wound up trapped and unhappy. Then the saying became code for all those seemingly perfect lives being lived someplace else, with better jobs or partners or inner states.

A thief, stealing his friendship.

In the end, the body betrayed everyone.

A small cup of the deceivingly cheerful cherry-red syrup

A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your enemies confused. If they don't know who you are or what you want, they can't predict your next move.

Lord Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.

Real is unreal But unreal will be real