“You can lie through your teeth, but your teeth don't lie”

“As his older sister, it was my job to lie to him in the name of easing his troubled mind.”

“A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end of the world unless you're really, really sure it's going to happen. Being wrong tends to undermine your authority.”

“Lie through your teeth and call it a novel. All will be well.”

“-Who's that guy?-What guy?-The one I saw go up the stairs to your room with you.-Oh, that guy.”

“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”

“Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.”