Justine Larbalestier Quotes

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

If someone asks you if you're all right, and you say you are, that's usually a lie.

I know my lies are always wishes.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

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

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

People deny things that are true all the time.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.