“Because sometimes I lie, Perry. We all lie, even you, but not everyone is brave enough to admit it.”
“Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.”
“I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.”
“Sometimes, I said, a lie is the way of least pain for everyone.”
“Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.”
“In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”