#deception

Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me. Delaney nodded. That doesn’t mean you want to be found. Come on. One drink. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #love-hurts #love

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#deception #dishonor #falsehood #love #shame

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up. ↗

— Helen Cross

#lies #words #love

Reality denied comes back to haunt. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#history #psychology #self-deception #behavior

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#self-deception #deception

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. ↗