The Book of Lies Quotes

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“We all live best in our imaginations.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“All writers steal from their own lives.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Life is filled with trapdoors.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“People are more twisted than people think.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. But what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write your future.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“You need to understand something Cal-in this world, we're not humans having a divine experience. We're divine beings having a human experience.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Some dreams linger for years.
And some last forever.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Do you not see that? That's what being family is - that's the best part - it's not tit for tat or who owes more, it's simply - when one hurts, so does the other; when one finds good, you share in that, too. That's family.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“That was the problem with being desperate. It always made you sloppy.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Life is a monster, Calvin. Especially when it doesn't turn out the way you hoped. But that doesn't mean you can hide from it.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Take it from the former pastor: The true believers are the ones who'll burn you the worst.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“There are some prisons with no bars. But that doesn’t mean you can’t dig your way out.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies