It was a lie of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said that when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies. We can't plan for everything, you know.

You'll keep looking around for something, something you were looking for, but you can't find it, and you can't remember what it was.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? ... There ain't nothin' …

And it came into hooch's mind that when both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerfully close to being the same thing as…