“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

“Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.”

“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”

“When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire … and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.”

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”

“What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?”

“Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,” said Tenkswa-Tawa. “That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.”

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”