Deception Synonym Novels & Stories

“And who am I but God’s servant on earth, is he was killed, not once but twice, for being someone other than who he truly was. For lying.” “For being dishonest,” she said. Her tongue felt thick, her lips now without a doubt numb. She wondered if he heard her drunkenness in her words. In the slurring of her sentences or the way her lips refused to respond. And if he would tell on her. If she would be punished. Expelled. Destroyed. She wondered if she should take another drink. “Being dishonest has consequences.” He was watching her. “Deception travels, like a blackening swarm of ravenous flies, landing on the innocent, infecting them, changing them. Coloring them, these innocents, with the si

She also looked, in this specific low light with a mug of tea and her hair down, like the most real thing in the room. "Other things," I said. Same answer as before. She would know what it meant. Her shoulder was against mine. Neither of us moved away. "I used to think I was good at reading people," she said. "Four years living with someone who was lying every day and I didn't see it. Or I saw pieces of it and explained them away because the alternative was too much to hold." "That's not a failure of perception," I said. "That's what sustained deception does to a person. It uses your own trust against you."

“Is it?” “Yes, there are words within Fae that when combined with a certain inflexion can imply deceit,” he had set the book to the side and leaned forward on his chair, his golden hair sweeping forward over his shoulder. “For example…” he spoke a phrase and then repeated it with a very subtle difference in the pronunciation. “The first is straight Fae, but the second implies there is a hidden deceit.” “Why would they have a language that is designed to tell you that they’re being deceitful?” I wondered.