Quotes About Deception

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

I've no use for liars. What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?

It's an awful lot to take in, this elaborate plan in which I was a piece, just as I was meant to be a piece in the Hunger Games. Used without consent, without knowledge. At least in the Hunger Games, I knew I was being played with.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

I get to the bottom of why I'm so upset. When I do, it's almost too Mortifying to admit. All this months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.

Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.

Somehow I don't think he's talking about Rue. She didn't drop a nest of tracker jackers on him.

she had said it approvingly, as a compliment. Or, was she mocking him? He remembered she carried snakes in her pocket and the usual rules didn't apply to her.

If peeta and I were both die, or they thought we were…

The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I'm in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act.

Finnick was someone bought and sold. A district slave. A handsome one, certainly, but in reality, harmless. Who would he tell? And who would believe him if he did? But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

He shoved her away, dropping the ax, and tore something from the back of his neck. His hand shot into the air, fingers gripped tightly around the bright pink snake.

Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. Like your electricity trap in the arena? I ask. Exactly. And see how well that worked out? says Beetee. Well...not really, I think.

Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

Snow shakes his head in mock disappointment. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.

Quizá la chica no se acuerde de mí, aunque sé que me engaño: no se te olvida la cara de la persona que era tu última esperanza.

That's true. No one in their right mind would let me make the plans. Because I obviously can't tell a friend from an enemy.

Ya no siento lealtad hacia estos monstruos llamados seres humanos, a pesar de ser uno de ellos.

the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. But

Qué son las mentiras, sino intentos por ocultar algún tipo de debilidad?

Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't

And like a fool, I bought into it.

Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Peeta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby.

It was a lie but people believed it, while no one seemed to believe the truth. Whatever that was.