Quotes About Honesty

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

Then what are you like, Annabel? he shot back. A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

I don't lie. You don't lie, I repeated. That's what I said. Ever. Nope. Sure you don't, I thought.

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

I'm not saying I'm a liar,' I told him. He raised his eyebrows. 'That's not how I meant it, anyway.' 'How'd you mean it, then?' I was digging myself a hole here, and I knew it. But still, I tried to explain myself. 'It's just... I don't always say what I feel.' 'Why not?' 'Because the truth sometimes hurts,' I said. 'Yeah,' he said. 'So do lies, though.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone's face, it was another.

Shit, Delia said. I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.

Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. Okay, look. Deb's face was dead serious. I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong. I'm offended, Dave told her flatly.

At the very least you should tell yourself the truth. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?

Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say. It's such a simple thing, not to promise what you can't or won't deliver. But my mom had done that all the time.

And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds--was really all about.

if i were a book i would be so open

People will tell you what they want you to know.

I'd said I didn't always tell the truth, that I didn't handle conflict well, that anger scared me, that I was used to people just disappearing when they were mad.

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.