Time Quote by Alice Hoffman

“People liked to pretend, but when you knew the truth you could see nothing but the lie.”

— Anonymous

“Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“We all pretended it would get better, but the unspoken truth is always louder than the stories we tell.”

— Jamie McGuire

“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”

— Sarah Miller

“I'm so damn good at lying. It becomes almost second nature when you hide the truth every hour of every day.”

— Erin Watt

“Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.”

— Mia Asher

“You told the truth or you lied with consequences like these. If you held back truth you couldn't win. You swallowed truth and it…

— katherine winter

“I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again.”

— John Green

“It wasn’t all a lie,’ she said in a quiet voice. ‘The way I felt about you was real.”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

“When you saw where the truth was, you wanted to get there as quickly as you could, before you lost sight of it again.”

— Laura Dave

“I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.”

— pleasefindthis

“[...] and I had to face something I’ve long pretended wasn’t true, for reasons I don’t fully understand. If I died, I would leave…

— Roxane Gay