Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

I am not a daydreamer.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

That which is cannot be true.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

People deny things that are true all the time.

Repetition often becomes fact.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

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

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.