Jodi Picoult Quotes

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

My whole life has been a lie.

Do not be deceived by impostors.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I just thought 'Blue' was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who's living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she's telling.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

The let-alone lies not in your good will.

You can't build a foundation on lies.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.