Quotes About Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

VERY PRETTY, BUT DEFINITELY NOT LIARS

The woman wasn't Mr. Kahn's sister. She was Mr. Kahn.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -Benjamin Franklin.

And sometimes you just don't know what's going on inside of people. People always seem so perfect on the surface. But it's not always the case. Everyone hides things.

Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have things out in the open.

Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could be something else

Alison was great at keeping secrets, but she was also great at punishing people with the truth." - Jason Dilaurentis, Pretty Little Liars

No wonder Emma didn't see me. No wonder I wasn't in the mirror. I wasn't really there. I was dead. ... Emma stared at the girl's huge, blue eyes, slightly upturned nose, and round face. She looked exactly like her. That was because the girl in the video was me.

Unless these people saw her cracks. Unless they got too close and realized that she was ruined inside.

Everyone thinks I'm one thing, but I'm other things, too; I'm behind a curtain; I'm living a lie.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, and contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves." —BLAISE PASCAL

Detective Quinlan, I think I know who killed my sister." ... "That's interesting. I was just coming back here to tell you the same thing... Emma.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away, every kernel is rotten.

Scarlet's whole life . . . Some things aren't exactly what you think." A chill shot through Delilah. "What do you mean?" Was Scarlet still alive?

Look. Whatever Gina Leigh told you about Delilah, it's not true. Gina is a vindictive psychopath. She's been blackmailing people, impersonating her daughter, for years.

I don't have a twin. That's impossible." - Sutton "You do have a twin." - Becky

But that perfect little world you thought you were witnessing? It was mostly lies. My smiles and sweetness, my big hugs and happy hashtags: it was all a juicy, duplicitous trick for you to share and discuss and gobble up. And those lies were what destroyed me, plain and simple.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.