#lies

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#lying #self-deception #truth #time

When she awoke, the world was on fire. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#awoke #fire #full-metal-alchemist #naruto #shay

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lying #trust #trust

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#misfortunes #women #women

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. ↗

— Al Pacino

#lies #lying #truth #acting

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#lies #lying #oral-sex #sex #sexuality

So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I 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. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#truth #hurt

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#truth #running

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lies #state

Lies require commitment. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#commitment