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Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn’t it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah’s father.”- Nell

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Lying is the new truth.

William Paul Young

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Baltasar Gracián

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

The right sort of lie, I found, could serve better than the truth.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain’t it…

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they’ll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

But what do you say if you’re asked a direct question and you can’t tell the truth and you can’t tell a lie?’ ‘You say “how very interesting” and change the subject.

Jacqueline Carey

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

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