Quotes About Deception

Ahhh," breathed the serpent, "to be desired by princes and kings. I am you, Tayven. I am the snake inside your pretty skin that bit them and poisoned their hearts.

He hated the false intimacy, the insincere concern.

Magrast was like someone's version of hell; there was opulance and luxury, but a dark, rotten heart to it. So far, Khaster had only glimpsed the other Magrast, but he sensed it was there. The eyes of the whores, both male and female, who haunted the mazelike streets, oozed a knowledge that was not just sexual. Khaster perceived a veiled invitation: I can show things beyond your dreams or nightmares. Come to me, succumb. Learn. Then pay.

To this point, I had not realised how deadly Mallory could be, and even believed her hand was not behind these events. I realised I must be wrong. Some of Mallory's creatures were among the delegations to Mewt.

Daniel was his strength, his psychic eye. But it had been plucked out.

Everyone wanted to know more lurid tales about the Wraethru. Only I knew he was one of them: his hands were never still, and I could tell half the things he said were lies.

There are schemes within schemes within schemes.

The stories are true in a way. They do steal people. But not in the way we thought.

Ah, Tayven, we are not together and I am not swooning in your embrace, ready to spill all. I see through your wiles.

Put her in any situation that was even vaguely new and personal and she was lost; her pale, almost translucent skin and auburn hair seemed to signal everything she was feeling. She may raise her chin in proud disdain and even curl her lip in an emergency, but nobody was likely to be fooled if she glowed the colour of a midsummer sunset.

The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.

Logan didn't know which was worse – discovering your husband was a lying, adulterous bastard, or a dismembered corpse.

Ah … politics, Sergeant. When the top brass hand you a turd, you polish it and say, "my, what a lovely jobbie!" That way they are impressed by your intellect, perception and ability. If you don't, all you've got is a handful of shit.

A thoughtful pause and then: 'Maybe to make it easy to find, but look like it's hard to find, so you'd find it but think it wasn't meant to be found, even though you only really found it because someone wanted it to be found?

It could happen. People could be fooled. Memory is short.

Black fungus, white fungus, yellow fungus , blue fungus and so on. Keep inventing bogus fungus to cheat people.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Perfect days are just the world setting you up to rip you down.

Flora) "No, Jess- it'll take hours. Just go and see Mr. Powell and fess up. It's the only way. Crawl and grovel and offer to do all sorts of remedial thingies. That's what I do with my dad. And do it with captivating feminine charm. That always works on Dad. I stroke his hair. It never fails." "I can't stroke Mr. Powell's hair, for God's sake!" A horrible hallucination flashed through Jess's mind.

Goodness means telling good lies, so that people won't get hurt by true words.

Lawyers are the vilest creatures on earth—less than human

I trusted you to carry out work for me, and you have abused that by feeding the widows falsehoods. You are a devil!