Lies Quotes - Page 3

She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Just because someone says it is so doesn't mean it is.

Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!