Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“What? How did you know I was lying?” she asked, realizing the purpose of the comment. “Listen hard enough and you begin to hear…

— K.J. Colt

“He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still thinking. After…

— Tao Lin

“... No.' She had said the word very faintly, but I heard it clearly. She had wilfully lied to me. I didn't know what…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

“Why would you bother lying?” Her eyes darkened. “What would you gain?” “Your ruffles?” He watched her face and knew the moment when she…

— Catherine Anderson

“How much did you read?’ Sophia said. ‘Not much. I found your characters a bit two-dimensional.”

— Nathan M. Farrugia

“Why did I think that she was lying to me? Because it would mean that everyone else is lying to me instead”

— D.S. Wrights

“ It’s all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are…

— Anne Ursu

“Did she always have something to read in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at anything else?”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you…

— Chad Harbach

“Or was it possibly...nothing more than a read ?”

— David Markson

“was beginning to think she’d lied about that.”

— V.J. Chambers

“She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.”

— Lesley Choyce