Very soon she’ll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed...

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

I know it’s a lot. But she can handle it. I’d rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that...

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I’m not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK.

Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect

Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught.

Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she’d probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it...

I love you. You’re the only one.” She isn’t the first woman he’s ever said that to. He shouldn’t have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn’t have treated it like...

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don’t have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to...

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a tooth in a sand pit in Nebraska with no other bones about it,...

I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.

Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how...

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

You’re not worthy” is one of them.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it’s the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no...