17 Quotes by Jodi Picoult about lying




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    In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

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    Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

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    There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

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    As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

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    Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

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