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  • #1
    Judith McNaught
    “A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.”
    Judith McNaught, Something Wonderful
    tags: lie

  • #2
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A lie cannot live.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: lie

  • #3
    Jodi Picoult
    “That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
    tags: fall, lie

  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #5
    Alice Sebold
    “Nothing is ever certain.”
    Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

  • #6
    Dorothy Allison
    “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
    Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

  • #9
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #10
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #12
    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #13
    Kālidāsa
    “Yesterday is but a dream,
    Tomorrow is only a vision.
    But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
    Kālidāsa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 1: Poems
    tags: hope

  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #15
    “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”
    Cheryl Hughes

  • #16
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.”
    Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

  • #17
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.”
    Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce



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