Seanan McGuire Quotes

Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

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

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.