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Jodi Picoult Quotes about Lying

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When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Lying, Want Something, Want

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Lying, Believe, Two

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Truth, Lying, Believe

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Hurt, Growing Up, Lying

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Lying, Rescue, Greater Good

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.742, Simon and Schuster

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Strong, Lying, Sucker

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

Lying, Faces, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

Lying, Doe, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Lying, Sometimes, Found

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Truth, Lying, Dishonesty

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

Crazy, Lying, Fall

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

Lying, Said, Persons

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.827, Simon and Schuster

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Wall, Lying, Reality

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

Lying, Once Upon A Time, Between The Lines

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Lying, Breathing, Long

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.208, Penguin

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

Hurt, Lying, Two

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

Lying, Color, Coats

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

Lying, Toffee, Never Quit

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Lying, Differences, Space

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

Lying, Heart, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Lying, Almonds, Disease

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Lying, Zest, Chocolate

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Hope, Lying, Reality

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Lying

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Lying, Party, Believe

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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