#lies

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."

"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."

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

"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."

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

"You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there."

"To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest."

"If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway."

"I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie."

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

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive."

"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."

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

"The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."

"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."