#lies

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

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

"Initially, the truth may hurt, but lies hurt always."

"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

"Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fight the lies, and the heart to fight the mind."

"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."

"Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies."

"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."

",the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do."

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."

"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."

"Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time."

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."

"The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you."

"How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail."

"Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end."

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul."