Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You never monkey with the truth.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.