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Lying Quotes by Lauren Oliver
- They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out…
- I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls…
- Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
- They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed.…
- All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to…
- I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with…
- I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to…
- That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own…
- Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?
- They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that…
- It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing,…
- And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never…
- Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end…
- They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one…
- Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius