Hiding The Truth Quotes

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“I can love who I think you are
Or you can allow yourself
To be yourself
So that I can love YOU.”
― Kate McGahan

“Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived.”
― Dianna Hardy, Saving Eve

“What are you hiding? Is it something from others, or from yourself. Find your truth. The more you show up, the more you'll be found.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I grew up being told, "If you do marijuana you'll be a slave for the rest of your life," and it only took me ten minutes to realize smoking marijuana was pretty cool. Then it was, "If you take LSD you'll be a slave for the rest of your life. Then it got to be, "If you take cocaine, you'll be slave for life." There was a time when I thought, "Hey, I've been taking Heroin for six months and I feel fine. You know, just on weekends." I actually believed that you didn't have to become addicted. I was wrong. The most important thing out of this is, don't lie to the kids. If marijuana is not going to make you homeless and addicted, don't tell people it is, because they'll found out it doesn't, then when they get to the stuff that really WILL, they ain't gonna believe you." - Dickie Peterson”
― Jon Wiederhorn, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

“Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Because I started to think that I didn't know who Mary Elizabeth was at all. I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Always, as I looked back, I could see that there had been an almost willful intent to obscure, to misdirect, disguised as concern that we not be frightened or overwhelmed.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“So much like the moon, we show the world only one and veil our many faces...even from the sun.”
― Jason Versey

“Truth be told, are you ready to defend yourself?”
― Aireen Pontillo

“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny

“a great way to hide the truth is to write a lot of non-fiction”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“If the truth was important enough for one generation of powerful officials to go to great lengths to hide it, then it should be important for us to search for it now.”
― Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

“The monster never left me, Lunora.

It was dreaming...”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora: A Book of Sand

“When no one is watching, saints become devils.”
― Ezekiel Millinga, TWO-FACED

“S'en est allée l'amante
Au village voisin malgré la pluie
Sans son amant s'en est allée l'amante
Pour danser avec un autre que lui
Les femmes mentent mentent”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot

“What we don’t bring into light, and don’t acknowledge to ourselves, grows in the dark.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny

“Never trust a man with two phones.”
― Mike Skinner

“You can regret doing something as much as you can regret doing nothing.”
― Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly

“We're all moons. Some are just better at hiding their dark sides.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

“When you hide anything, the universe begins its attempts to reveal it! Did you hide in the darkness? The sun begins to rise! Did you hide behind the curtain, the wind starts to blow! You cover your face with paint, it starts to rain! You cannot hide things, other things reveal it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Just because brokerages disclose a convoluted
web of profiteering doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. It just means they are hiding these questionable practices in plain sight with a mountain of compliance language that no one will ever read.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“He hates that he can fold himself up so tightly in his own skin that there's nothing real about him on the outside.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne