Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

I don’t like to feel so crazy about someone. I don’t like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

One truth stings far less than a thousand lies.

—Brittainy C. Cherry in Art & Soul

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

—Oscar Wilde

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

—Theodor W. Adorno

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

—Unknown

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

—Unknown