Lies are a little fortress. Inside them you can feel safe and powerful.
Innocence didn't mean we're immune to these things
Let's blame the passage of time
Love and loss, truth it costs more than I can spare right now
Maybe it's simpler to lie
Let's blame the passage of time
Love and loss, truth it costs more than I can spare right now
Maybe it's simpler to lie
Ron Pope - Fireflies
2Baldridge: "So Dr. Lightman just assumes you're a liar if you're a politician?"
Gillian Foster: "He assumes you're a liar if you're a Homo sapiens."
Gillian Foster: "He assumes you're a liar if you're a Homo sapiens."
Gillian Foster in Lie To Me - Season 1 Episode 1
2But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.
Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 2 Episode 14
31Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Sam: "We need each other. I haven't even lied in like, the past two days."
Andrew Largeman: "Is that true?"
Sam: "No."
Andrew Largeman: "Is that true?"
Sam: "No."
Sam in Garden State
A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.
Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 19
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