Lying Quote by Tana French Download Open image “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.” — Tana French ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begin Story Crave Truth Lying Stories Telling Telling Begin Truth Truth Lie Two
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
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Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
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“When you lie things become harder to grasp, but honesty will take you right to the thing you desire.” — Marty Vaughn Copy Share Image
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I remember this country back when I was growing up. We went to church, we ate family suppers around the table, and it would… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“That house shimmered in my mind like some fairy fort that appeared for one day in a lifetime, tantalizing and charged, with those four… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“…out here in the real world, my man, you would be amazed how seldom murder has to break into people’s lives. Ninety-nine times out… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Before I could get my bearings he was on top of me and shoving my face down into the dirt. He was bigger and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“For ten years Dublin’s been changing faster than our minds can handle. The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Stephen shrugged. “Yeah. Well. I said I would.” “Ah. Are we having issues?” “This feels sleazy.” “I promise I’ll respect you in the morning.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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