Jodi Picoult Quotes

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

A lie cannot live.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

People for the most part can smell lies.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Only lie about the future.

terminological inexactitude

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.