Quotes
Some people would tell you anything if they thought you’d be scared.
p. 32
Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.
When a traveller talks to you perpetually about the splendour of his luggage, which he does not happen to have with him, my son, beware of that traveller! He is, ten to one, an impostor.
p. 667
The only power that Satan has is through human belief in its lies.
p. 237
I know no more accurate epithet for Satan than the Father of Lies.
p. 237
Lying is both a cause and a manifestation of evil.
Humans are structureless. They live in conflict with themselves and each other. Their great genius is rationalization: lying into mirrors until they bully and seduce themselves into things they would never otherwise do. They are creatures of self-delusion, regret, and desire.
p. 373
But the biggest lies are often the ones we tell ourselves. I bit my tongue because I did not want to ask questions. I did not ask questions because I did not want to know the answers. It was convenient to believe my husband was trustworthy; sometimes faith is easier than doubt.
“Maybe he was lying,” Peters said.
“Lie is a blow to the tyranny of fact,” Hollis said….
“I think lies are good,” he said. “People should lie more. Lies are like these little peepholes into a better world.”
p. 47
The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.
They’ve told so many lies in their lives that they’ve run out and can now tell only the truth.
p. 102
People tell stories all the time: the stories they want told, where any story could be changed or warped this way or that. (p84)
