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Ally Carter

"Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead."

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"Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead."

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"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."

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"It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!"

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"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."

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"Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around."

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"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."

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"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."

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"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."

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"Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it."

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"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."

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"As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way."
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"The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead."
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"I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You."
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