“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
“I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.”
“i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...”
“There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think - but not for lies.”
“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”