“Only the liar knows he's lying”

“Only the liar knows if he's lying”

“You’re lying,” he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as ifhe was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn’t.“I am not-”“You can say it a million times, but that doesn’t make it any more true.” Peter smiled then, soguileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. “You might be able to fool Dad, and thecops, and anyone else who’ll listen,” he said. “You just can’t fool another liar.”

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

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

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”

“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.”