Pay Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

— Edward Young

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been…

— Maureen Johnson

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly…

— Lee Child

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

— Henry David Thoreau

To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually,…

— Ismail Kadaré

“The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life.”

— Jackie Collins

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

— Kim Edwards

“the truth was not always what people wanted to hear; sometimes it was better to keep the burden of truth to yourself.”

— Katerina Diamond

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

— Tamora Pierce

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

— Kevin Powers

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t…

— Libba Bray

“It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to…

— Stephen Dobyns