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![George Bernard Shaw](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1271683549i/5217._UX200_CR0,53,200,200_.jpg)
“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
― The Quintessence of Ibsenism
― The Quintessence of Ibsenism
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
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![Laurie Halse Anderson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1563830499i/10003._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”
― Speak
― Speak
![John Green](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353452301i/1406384._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”
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![Nicola Yoon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1610567480i/7353006._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“prom·ise (ˈpräməs) n. pl. - es. 1. The lie you want to keep. [2015, Whittier]”
― Everything, Everything
― Everything, Everything
“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”
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![Ally Carter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1421526957i/56224._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”
― I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
― I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
![Haruki Murakami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615497402i/3354._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
![Dark Jar Tin Zoo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1462070511i/6949241._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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― Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
― Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
![Judith McNaught](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670890212i/9885._UX200_CR0,9,200,200_.jpg)
“A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.”
― Something Wonderful
― Something Wonderful
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place."
He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.”
― City of Ashes
He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.”
― City of Ashes
![Ted Chiang](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399023404i/130698._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
![Michelle Hodkin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1594978408i/4126827._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.”
― The Evolution of Mara Dyer
― The Evolution of Mara Dyer
![Vera Nazarian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561930653i/186145._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
![Philip Pullman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614625372i/3618._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.”
― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
![Humayun Ahmed](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1371533870i/6983656._UY200_CR61,0,200,200_.jpg)
“মিথ্যা হলো শয়তানের বিয়ের মন্ত্র। মিথ্যা বললেই শয়তানের বিয়ে হয়। বিয়ে হওয়া মানেই সন্তান-সন্ততি হওয়া। একটা মিথ্যার পর আরো অনেকগুলি মিথ্যা বলতে হয় এই কারণেই।পরের মিথ্যাগুলি শয়তানের সন্তান।”
― এই মেঘ, রৌদ্রছায়া
― এই মেঘ, রৌদ্রছায়া
![Irvine Welsh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461084249i/5687._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone.”
― Filth
― Filth
![Susan Forward](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1315691274i/6396._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Reality Check
His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. That doesn’t mean you’re an angel and he’s the devil. It does mean that if he doesn’t like certain things about you, he has many ways to address them besides lying. If there are sexual problems between you, there are many resources available to help you. Nothing can change until you hold him responsible and accountable for lying and stop blaming yourself.
The lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing the truth about our lovers don’t feel like lies. They feel comfortable, familiar, and true. We repeat them like a mantra and cling to them like security blankets, hoping to calm ourselves and regain our sense that the world works the way we believe it ought to.
Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection—and for a short time they may make us feel better. But we can only keep the truth at bay for so long. Our self-lies can’t erase his lies, and as we’ll see, the longer we try to pretend they can, the more we deepen the hurt.”
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His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. That doesn’t mean you’re an angel and he’s the devil. It does mean that if he doesn’t like certain things about you, he has many ways to address them besides lying. If there are sexual problems between you, there are many resources available to help you. Nothing can change until you hold him responsible and accountable for lying and stop blaming yourself.
The lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing the truth about our lovers don’t feel like lies. They feel comfortable, familiar, and true. We repeat them like a mantra and cling to them like security blankets, hoping to calm ourselves and regain our sense that the world works the way we believe it ought to.
Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection—and for a short time they may make us feel better. But we can only keep the truth at bay for so long. Our self-lies can’t erase his lies, and as we’ll see, the longer we try to pretend they can, the more we deepen the hurt.”
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![David Mitchell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1409248688i/6538289._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
![J.K. Rowling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596216614i/1077326._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy
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