The Little Liar Quotes

“...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth.
And destroy the world.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Never be ashamed of a scar. In the end, scars tell the story of our lives, everything that hurt us, and everything that healed us.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“By the time you share what a loved one longs to hear, they often no longer need it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“all humans are inclined to hate others if they believe they are the cause of their unhappiness.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“A man, to be forgiven, will do anything.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“When the Wolf stirred his followers in the 1930s, it worked not because Germans were inclined to hate Jews, but because all humans are inclined to hate others if they believe they are the cause of their unhappiness. The trick is to convince them. It isn’t hard. Just find a group that feels aggrieved and point at another group as the source of their woes.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“But I am the shadow you cannot outrun, the mirror that holds your final reflection. You may duck my gaze for all your days on Earth, but let me assure you, I get the last look.
I am Truth.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“But questioning a madman is like interrogating a spider. They both go on spinning their webs until someone squashes them out of existence.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Sometimes a lie is merely truth that is yet to happen.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Sometimes, it is the truths we don’t speak that echo the loudest.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“a hard truth of war: grief does not take sides.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Evil seeks the dark. Not because it is ashamed. Darkness is simply more efficient. Fewer complications. Less outrage.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“It is a sad fact I have noticed with humans. By the time you share what a loved one longs to hear, they often no longer need it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“It is not your memories which haunt you.
It is not what you have written down.
It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget.
What you must go on forgetting all your life.

JAMES FENTON, "A German Requiem”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Like many decisions that change a life, it comes silently, without fanfare.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“The truth of love is that when it fades away, you don’t really care less. You don’t care at all.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“easy to be nice when you get something in return. It’s harder when nobody knows the good you are doing except yourself.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Truth be told.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Always remember this,” he said. “Si khohaimo may pachivalo sar o chachimo.” “What does it mean?” Nico asked. “‘Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“But there are certain truths that are experienced universally, and one of them is loss. The hollow in your heart as you stand by a grave. The lump in your throat as you stare at your destroyed home. Loss. Yes. Loss is universal. Everyone in their lifetime will know it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“To keep harmony, there are things you might not say, even if you know them to be accurate. It is, technically, an act of deceit. It is also an act of love.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“But harmony and humankind make a short marriage. Something always seems to happen.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“But I am the shadow you cannot outrun, the mirror that holds your final reflection. You may duck my gaze for all your days on earth, but let me assure you, I get the last look." - Truth”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Truth is a straight line, but human life is a flexible experience. You exit the womb curling into a new world, and from that moment forward, you bend and adjust.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“It isn’t hard. Just find a group that feels aggrieved and point at another group as the source of their woes.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“When the Wolf stirred his followers in the 1930s, it worked not because Germans were inclined to hate Jews, but because all humans are inclined to hate others if they believe they are the cause of their unhappiness. The trick is to convince”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“It’s easy to be nice when you get something in return. It’s harder when nobody knows the good you are doing except yourself.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“Such falsehoods bring the Wolf power, great power, and crowds of people cheer his speeches. He elevates to chancellor then president then supreme leader. He executes his enemies. He feels his inferiority fading with each new rub of success. He stacks his plate high with lies sizzled in hate, then feeds them to his armies. The armies grow.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“It was a time in human history where the world was cleaved in two, those doing nothing about the horror and those trying to stop it. A world of light and dark.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

“in desperate moments people hear what they want to hear, despite what they might see right in front of them.”
― Mitch Albom, The Little Liar