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40294d6
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"I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom's answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other. "Oh, of course!" Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. "How could I have forgotten?" And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don't know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not."
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ella-shepard
fake
lies
scared
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Beth Revis |
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200bc6b
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She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences.
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lies
presence
stories
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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9156d9d
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"The freedom of our people is more important!" Julie says fiercely. "We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!" Jack just smiles at her. "That's a nice lie to believe," he says."
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freedom
lies
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Beth Revis |
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35d05ac
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The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.
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dreams
ersatz
fiction
jonathan-lethem
lies
reality
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Jonathan Lethem |
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e027976
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Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.
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lies
lying
sally-wilcox
spooksville
the-wishing-stone
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Christopher Pike |
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d0a4d51
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Everyone remembers things which never happened. And it is common knowledge that people often forget things which did. Either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it.
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lies
memory
reality
truth
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Jeanette Winterson |
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937e881
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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lies
truth
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Jacqueline Carey |
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1bb76be
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The best lies stay close to the truth.
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fairytales
liar
lies
truth
truth-and-lies
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |