Lying Quotes by Jodi Picoult

“Only the liar knows if he's lying”

— Jodi Picoult

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

— Jodi Picoult

“Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.”

— Jodi Picoult

Only the liar knows he's lying

— Jodi Picoult

“Only the liar knows that he's lying.”

— Jodi Picoult

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

— Jodi Picoult

Lie to yourself until it's true.

— Jodi Picoult

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

— Jodi Picoult

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

— Jodi Picoult

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

— Jodi Picoult

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

— Jodi Picoult

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

— Jodi Picoult

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

— Jodi Picoult

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

— Jodi Picoult

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

— Jodi Picoult

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and…

— Jodi Picoult

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the…

— Jodi Picoult

How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him…

— Jodi Picoult

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone…

— Jodi Picoult

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're…

— Jodi Picoult

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot…

— Jodi Picoult

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the…

— Jodi Picoult

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you…

— Jodi Picoult

“You’re lying,” he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn’t. “I…

— Jodi Picoult

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now…

— Jodi Picoult

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth…

— Jodi Picoult

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the…

— Jodi Picoult

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you…

— Jodi Picoult

There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him;…

— Jodi Picoult

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

— Jodi Picoult

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

— Jodi Picoult

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract.…

— Jodi Picoult

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough…

— Jodi Picoult

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than…

— Jodi Picoult

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter,…

— Jodi Picoult

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

— Jodi Picoult

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice…

— Jodi Picoult