Lying is easy. But it's lonely."" What do you mean?"" When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?"" Nothing, " I say." Exactly.

Victoria Schwab
Lying is easy. But it's lonely.
Lying is easy. But it's lonely.
Lying is easy. But it's lonely.
Lying is easy. But it's lonely.
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Lying is easy. But it's lonely."What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing," I say."Exactly," she says. “What's left is the part of us that can't explain our pain or explain our pleasure or explain our joy. The part of us that just has to be there, you know? And when we're feeling that, we have to tell ourselves a story about how it happened. We have to give ourselves a reason for being alive, and lying is the easiest way to do that." -Bonnie Jo Campbell

Source: The Archived

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