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61 " Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe? "
― A.S. King , Please Ignore Vera Dietz
62 " The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves. "
― Derek Landy , Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6)
63 " It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. "
― Kim Edwards , The Memory Keeper's Daughter
64 " What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter. "
― Tim Kreider , We Learn Nothing
65 " But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. "
― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)
66 " And the bummer thing is, ghosts never leave. They might leave you alone sometimes, but they're always there deep down, whispering lies in your ear. They echo the lies others told you: That you're not smart enough; that you're not pretty; that you'll never amount to anything. "
― Josh Shipp , The Teen's Guide to World Domination: Advice on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Awesomeness
67 " And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him. "
― James Joyce , Ulysses
68 " Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. "
― Nikolai Grozni , Wunderkind
69 " Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. (" Behind the frosted glass" ) "
70 " There were kind lies. You still look beautiful. I love you. I forgive you.There were frightened lies. Someone else must have taken it. Of course I am Anglican. I never saw that baby before.There were predatory lies. Buy this tonic if you want your child to recover. I will look after you. Your secret is safe with me.Half-lies, and the tense little silences where a truth should have been. Lies like knives, lies like poultices. The tiger's stripe, and the fawn's dusky dapple. And everywhere, everywhere, the lies that people told themselves. Dreams like cut flowers, with no nourishing root. Will-o'-the-wisp lights to make them feel less alone in the dark. Hollow resolutions and empty excuses. "
― Frances Hardinge , The Lie Tree
71 " There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion... "
― Virginia Alison
72 " It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true. "
73 " Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me? "
― Steve Maraboli
74 " We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth. "
― , I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
75 " the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end. "
― Charles Bukowski , Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
76 " After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us. "
77 " Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth. "
― Miranda J. Barrett
78 " The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear. "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
79 " REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD. "
80 " Not all the relationships deserve loving and all the lies worth to regret. "
― M.F. Moonzajer , LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS