“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”
— Brent Weeks, book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 128)
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