“Because we shouldn’t be living lies,” I say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was me who said it, even though it was a lie. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” she said, “I lied before. I don’t ever forget about the accident.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But they’re lying. They were just being silly. That horse was just stupid. It was so stupid we named it Stupid Horse.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d lie there a few minutes, enjoying, in a way, the strangeness of my situation; then I’d groan and drag myself up to get Ob and May. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not gonna lie, I felt pretty weird thinking about calling my house back in Stockton. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Grieve for your friend, but never blame yourself. You did not kill the butcher's boy. That murder lies at the Hound's door, him and the cmel woman he serves." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After a few hours of lying in our hut, the growls in my stomach demand that I search for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worried that her arthritis had gotten worse, even though she had been lying down all morning. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All they’d had for two and a half years was silence and lies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though she was on the floor of the garden pagoda, she had slept comfortably, and as she sat up she realized that was probably due to the silk pillows she had been lying on. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was still lying on top of him, her soft lines molded to his hard ones. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It became depressingly easy to lie about my comings and goings. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

By a rock on the bank were smears of blood, marking where Anna’s body had lain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And maybe I was lying by not telling her that it was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine was lying in the narrow bed wearing a plain, square-cut night-gown that looked as though it were made of rough sheeting. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So I attempted to defuse the situation with a sober and sincere-sounding lie. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘Here lie all the Men of the Mark that fell near this place,’ said Gandalf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Houseman found the young actor sitting in his dressing room, his costume and fake beard lying to the side. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

If I was lying on somebody’s grave, whoever it was would be six feet away. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I grew up a little, and I gradually began to figure out that pretty much everyone had been lying to me about pretty much everything since the moment I emerged from my mother’s womb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My red dress lies near him, torn to shreds. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were so many of us we could only all lie one direction or we couldn’t lie down at all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lies back down and closes his eyes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his back in the puddle made by the water dripping off of him. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I think you did lie to me!” she yelled. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She completed an accident-free somersault, then rolled over to lie on her stomach, searching for her bunny, who had taken refuge under the couch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had left him after lunch, still lying on David’s bed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It would be a lie to tell you I understood everything I was feeling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I lie back beside him and look up at the stars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But I couldn't make up a good lie, despite the good job I had been doing lying over the past few days. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes flew open as he wrenched himself back to the present: He was lying on the bank of the lake in the setting sun, and Ron and Hermione were looking down at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She puts the old coats from the pram on the floor and Alphie lies there with his sugary water and says Goo goo and smiles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was fashioned from beautifully carved wood, lying on its side near the edge of Father Olufemi’s desk. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pushing open the doors, Harry saw Neville lying, apparently asleep, in a bed near the door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She had been lying in the semidarkness nursing this palatable sadness for half an hour when she heard the sound of the police car parked below her window starting up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘The matter of the Lady Galadriel lies still between us. I have yet to teach you gentle speech.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Tally realized that this was where the lies started. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Maxim had been there I should not be lying as I was now, chewing a piece of grass, my eyes shut. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But they had 18 hostages lying helpless and chained at their feet. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They’re lying down, not on top of each other, just side by side, floating in space. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He ate like a king for a while until someone exposed his lies. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I repeated the lie that I didn’t know where it was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But if we can move it a few feet—so that it lies buried behind the rock—in the lee—then she and her children can stay in it as long as they need to. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to feel Luke lying beside me, but there wasn’t room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the pain in Peeta's eyes and know he isn't lying. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Peeping over the edge, they saw Vilthuril and her litter of four lying in the sun. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cry, whine, and lie, but in the end I am forced to leave. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the children and their grandfather saw him lying in the dim light, they stopped, shocked still. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lied, or else Mance kept it secret even from his own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I told them that if someone tells a lie, that person is not just a liar. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And here, now, a lie has changed the struggle, a lie has shifted priorities forever. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

So beautiful that even when I wake up again, I just lie there with my eyes shut tight, trying to remember every color. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She realizes it’s not just a mixtape he had lying around, but one he made just for her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the appointed time he’d come by and pick me up in a car and I’d get into the back seat and lie flat so I wouldn’t he seen. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the police academy, they found that Joe had been lying awake there all night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In his abject defeat lies his supreme triumph. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large wooden desk with several large, ledger-type books lying open atop it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I felt even worse about the lying. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I can see his every misstep, every considered lie, every return to truth. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up two sticks that were lying in the pit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was looking again in sweaty fear at her head lying upon the sticky newspapers with blood oozing outward toward the edges. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A group of young boys were running up the steep street, then lying down and letting themselves roll like barrels. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Scythe Curie nodded and offered a sympathetic grin, then said, “You’re lying, dear.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Canty was lying almost prone on one of the subway benches. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like running up the steps and striking his lying mouth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bear was skin and bones, like a lumpy white rug, lying on green grass with one paw lifted up in a kind of salute. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I turned to Musa, who was lying on his back next to me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So I should definitely tell the truth and definitely lie and also definitely avoid the conversation altogether. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But here the water is compared to the neighbouring air—both lie on the surface of the land and flow around it and across it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That was twice in one day that I’d lied to him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Nope,” I lied lightly, hoping I wouldn’t get caught in the lie. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You see what I see?” he asked, pointing to a body lying halfway down the block. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I inhale deep because this is all a lie. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And we had to move the tube going into her arm so that I wouldn’t lie down on it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The gander discovered the hole and led his family through, and they walked to the orchard and ate the apples that were lying on the ground. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“No sir. Hanging out with my friends tonight and doing some homework,” Travis said, enjoying the feeling that he may have been lying a bit. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I have a strong urge to move and let her lie down in my place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I should hate him for lying to me, but there’s still a part of me that wishes I could go back to when he was still my friend. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He could lie down and close his eyes until they ached, but it wouldn't be the same, because his skin felt exposed, and he had only to half-open the lids, to see into the darkness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“If it hadn’t been for your call moments earlier,” he says, “I would be the one lying on the ground.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Ah, go to bed, you kids. I don’t have to work today. I’ll lie down for a while myself before I buy the rice. Take any bed you want.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It’s easy for me to lie to everyone else, but it’s more difficult to lie to her, the only person who knew all the secrets of our Abnegation house, the violence contained within its walls. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be lying here wanting to die with my family. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s made a marvelous recovery. He refused to lie in bed and has been up on the wall helping out. You can’t keep a good Fieldmouse down, my dad always says.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hooper went on staring at the things lying on the table, his mind ticking over. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Boy, Momma can lie when she wants to! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broken pen, snapped in half deliberately—or at least I can’t think of a way it could have happened that’s not deliberate—is lying in the hinge of the ink-stained book. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you teD me you had a baby? Why have you lied to me all the time? I suppose she was your famous miracle, which you were so proud of.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell my parents I’m meeting Ayesha, but it’s a lie, and it’s for their own good. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mom’s book was still lying on my bed, and I threw it across the room. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had lied, of course, and had instead gone straight to his uncle to beg for enough cash to buy a plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were both naked, lying on their backs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘I’m sick,' Hooper said primly, 'in storms. I always have been sick. At school I’m allowed to go out of form and lie down, if it thunders.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Trepid returned to the Boxton Creek Home, he found his wife lying on their bed with a wet cloth draped over her forehead. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea was lying on the floor, just the way she used to, exercising her thighs. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gathered leaves from the trees, which smelled like sweet gum, and piled them to lie on. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two policemen had found Bebe several days later, lying under a park bench, unconscious from dehydration and hunger. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Which is true, so it’s not like I’m really lying. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I was lying on my bed, where I’d been for two weeks, when she appeared in the doorway, wavy and distorted, as if I were looking at her through a pool of water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There are three outfits lying side by side on the bed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was going to lie, but then for some reason he said his real name. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

To ask would be to give up the lie. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that—that—was not at all a lie. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the ground after my morning sun prayer, watching Sumac fly in the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He’d gone to lie down in another patient’s bed and would not leave it, despite the doctors entreaties. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He just stands there looking confused, and for a moment I wonder if he is confused, if in his sick heart he believes his own lies about disciplining me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She stood on tiptoes and stared into them, then stamped her foot and shouted, “No, your real eyes! Those fakes don’t fool me any more than your ridiculous lie about Abe!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was lying asleep and I did not wake him but sat down beside him for a while. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘That’s a lie. I’m the one who looks after Salim, day in, day out. He’s lived with me all his life. He’s mine. He goes where I go.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully they can’t tell I’m lying, but I suspect they can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Boomer is there, too, lying at the foot of her bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Scraps, sir. The mistress normally feeds them to the pigs, but she’s a good soul and told me to bring them for the prisoners,” I lied. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were dead—or so the woman said, and why would she lie? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’m just like them—an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bed is still made, and she just lies there with her arms out and her feet together, like the Jesus on the cross that hangs over their kitchen doorway. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mademoiselle must have lied when she said, “Poor fool, he loves you.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was lying in his lap with no expression on his face at all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw the outline of a horse lying on its side, suspended in the mesh net of chain-link overhead. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It some misunderstanding. We fix,” he lied, to make her feel better. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I wanted the Death Eaters to get a glimpse of Harry before we left, so they knew Xenophilius hadn’t been lying!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We used to lie like this as kids, when Mom and Dad would let us have pretend sleepovers in the living room. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principle pleasure of these audiences, says Dr. Trefusis, lies in referring to royalty without either revealing or denying the closeness of his connection, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’ll lie and insist that there’s been a computer error and that I am supposed to be in the Distinguished Scholars class, even though I suck in English and have a learning disability. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Khrushchev had masterfully withheld the news until now, expecting that the United States would be caught out in a lie. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be matriculating soon, and I need to at least have an idea about what lies ahead.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, right before I had my motorcycle accident I saw the whole thing happen: saw it in my mind-—the rain, the skid tracks, me lying there bleeding and my legs broken. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were certain that we would be ruined, and we wondered, lying awake in our loft, what would happen to us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And lying on the dock near the boathouse was a key. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When I get back to the dormitory, I expect to find the same thing I found the day before: a few initiates lying on beds or staring at nothing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was a lie but people believed it, while no one seemed to believe the truth. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One bastes it while the other lies down and sleeps. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I realize his towel is lying on the floor and he’s naked. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what’s worse, telling a secret or a lie. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“It was wrong of him to lie,” Breanna says, “but we also don’t know everything, or why. I’m just saying we should give him a chance, is all.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The last time I got in trouble—for lying about what grade I got on a test—my parents took my phone away for a week. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They all lie somewhere between God and nought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or I was so used to lying instead of telling difficult truths that I welcomed the chance to deceive her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“At least forty people...lie dead..., their bodies burned and distorted.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Three times Sammy drove past the water tower on St. Catherine’s Island to make sure that no one was lying in wait to apprehend the author of the blackmail note. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lies on the sofa with her turbanlike Sunday hat on, the afghan wrapped around her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, why would she lie? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Watch the flakes float down: We are lying in bed together on a Saturday morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And after dark he came into Rocinante and admired her facilities and we drank some whisky together and had a nice visit and told each other a few lies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of everything that lies between me and Mom, Dad, and Javier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen her before, on the TV and on other newspapers lying around at school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I think he’s ignoring me, but then I realize he’s not answering because he can’t lie and he doesn’t want to tell me the truth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then we lie down next to each other on the floor, shoulders touching, staring at the same patch of white ceiling. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You the one who was lying on the picnic table for the last hour?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“They lie at the very heart of Tartarus. Mortals such as you could never reach them, except through the halls of my palace—the Mansion of Night!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was so confident, she could tell I was not lying. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a shoe lying upside down at my feet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“A mountain of gifts! That will teach you not to lie to me again.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He walks over to the chair, takes the sleeping bag, and spreads it over the damp pine floor, then lies down. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He says they like to lie in the warm sun, and sometimes they fall asleep and get surprised when you accidentally wake them up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He told me in the same peremptory tone to lie still. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be able to get rid of the picture of Hermione, lying on the hospital bed as though carved out of stone. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“That was a lie, too. I just had to get those guys off my back.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And at the perimeter of this boneyard lies one much larger skeleton: that of the moose he shot, and subsequently agonized over. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I say, muffling my lie into Dad’s other shoulder. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

His feet and hands were numb from the cold, and his legs were stiff from lying still so long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We set up towels and just lie there like bacon. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When he saw Francie lying on the couch, he bawled louder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He asked me to do that too. I think he was bored lying in there with nothing to do.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They know I’m lying, they know I’m lying, they know I’m lying... The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s a fantasy, a lie, but the lies of men are as vivid as their truths and I can see every bit of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing this is where Khalil...I stare too hard, the crowd disappears, and I see him lying in the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was an act of impossible fate, because in the confusion of her indignation, in the fury of her shame, she had lied to him so that he would never know her real identity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon found this irritating, and as a wolverine he snapped at one girl’s squirrel daemon who was just lying across her shoulder whimpering faintly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We lie back looking up at the night sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I looked around I saw Trip’s tent lying half collapsed and smoldering in his fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I see a crowd gathered around me as I lie on a bed, or maybe a stretcher. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At night when I’m lying awake because my brain won’t shut off due to all there is to think about. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I threw the white hair away because I decided I was tired of lying.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know that he couldn’t kill Bailey . . . and Bailey didn’t lie . . . to me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But—they didn’t need to lie, did they? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too bad. Now look, you lie as quiet as you can and try not to blink your eyes. I’ll be right back.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fischer: The United States is based on lies. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This, supported by the inability to trap or record an actual bird and the negative DNA tests, all led to the conclusion that my town had been living a lie for nearly four months. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Between us lies the flat expanse where the Games began. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was looking down into a kind of pit, an underground room, and lying on the floor some ten feet below, apparently fast asleep, thin and starved in appearance, was the real Mad-Eye Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he’s lying,” Harry said, opening his eyes again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I come home and lie down on my old iron bed, worrying over what will happen... if she likes it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’m lying on the floor, on a futon, covered by a duvet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She waited anxiously for Mama’s answer because she knew that Mama never lied. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Algernon lies in his own dirt, unmoving, and the odors are stronger than ever before. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think that you already know this. You asked me to lie for you back there.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though she tried to lie still, she was filled with excitement. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were gasps and cries of surprise as they saw Alecto lying there unconscious. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to lie down in the flowers and sleep. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The merit,” he told a friend, “lies in the carrying out and not the thinking out of the experiment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The stewards had commissioned a veterinarian to go over to the Howard barn, pull Seabiscuit out, examine him, and determine whether or not Smith was lying about his horse’s condition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have only just come,” Ranofer said, hoping the lie would be believed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She whispered that she’d never lied to her grandma before, but she had told her she had to attend some school function that evening. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie back down, and hit play on the TV. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kelly called, flopping onto the bed and lying on her back with her head hanging off the side. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field and had begged him for water. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Here. Just lie down on the couch,” she said. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are still pens on some of the desks, and they all feature oversize paper calendars lying flat against the desks. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kuti, lying in a corner of the hut, began to moan. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am lying on a table in an overlit kitchen where all the appliances are sparkling white. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I could see myself battered and torn, lying in the valley below, and I said to myself, “Sam Gribley, you had better get down from here like a rabbit.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But you, Lord Stark ... I think . . . no, I know ... he would not kill you, not even for his queen, and there may lie our salvation." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Frederick says nothing more, and both boys lie motionless a long time, watching the blue spokes of moonlight rotate through the room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It either went underground, becoming esoteric or occult, or it was mislaid and would eventually turn up after centuries of lying neglected in some monastery library. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I lie in my bed listening to the bursts of laughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night, we sneak into a mill that is lying quiet for the evening. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

To be fair, my parents didn’t technically lie. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I took your word for it back then, T. But last night, as I was lying there, some missing piece floated into my head, and it all connected. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He hoisted out a smaller, metal box lying within the pine coffin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the cover was a picture of a man lying on a couch, knees crossed, one foot dangling in the air and smoking a cigarette which made a big smoke ring over his head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am almost completely sure that you are as healthy as a horse, Crow, but I won’t lie to you. Leprosy is spread by coughing. Sneezing. Touch. Even tears.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘Nor does age lie so heavily on your shoulders as some would have you think. Cast aside your prop!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Gilly had thrown away her whole life for a stinking lie. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

One of them must be lying, and I think it’s Nugent. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You want to see it lying at the bot­tom of the lifeboat, limbs trembling, eyes rolled back, a deathly rattle coming from its gaping mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached his room I found him lying in bed shaking violently while Nigel tried to keep him wrapped in blankets. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the clearing he expected to see them: some standing, others lying down, the color of their hides reflecting the moon like snow on the mountain peaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying face down in a puddle so deep the water almost covered his head. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Normally this would thrill me, to be alone with this handsome doctor paying attention to me, but all I want to do is lie down on the bed and slip into sleep. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BBC keys him up, makes him hate Hitler and the Nazis and their secrets and lies all the more. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But you lied to us! Being afraid of ticks is a lame reason to stay out of the woods! I just thought you were treating us like babies.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Seriously frostbitten, lying insensate in his tent, at least for the time being he was unable even to speak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Unless people are forced to confront their lies, their brutality, their wrongness, how are they supposed to put things right? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She peeked her head in to check on me and said, “I’m going to lie down for a couple of minutes, Melody. Are you okay for a few?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But I don't believe I was out for more than a few seconds, and when I came to, I was lying on the carpet and I was still, thank heavens, behind the screen. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I watched her for a moment, searching for the tell that would reveal her lie. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t lie,” I whisper, right against her cheek. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his back, his hands under his head, staring at the ceiling. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could tuck tail and follow my tormenters back to town, or I could go ahead alone and lie to Dad about it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His infantry lie on their bellies and peer across at Confederate cavalry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the difference between a truth and a lie?” the officer asked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Fearing that my family might think I was finicky, I lied to them, telling them that the white woman had already hired a boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Grandma told my parents now, the letters would end, and I’d definitely get in trouble for lying. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The man from the house was lying on the grass, with his head and arms in the water beside Bonneville’s dinghy, not moving. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They went on yelling and thrusting cocoons in one another’s faces and lying and haggling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So Bellerophon went to the holy place and when he was lying deep in slumber beside the altar he seemed to see the goddess standing before him with some golden thing in her hand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like this whole stupid paradise, this very good school, is nothing but a fancy promise, a broken one, a big lie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he wanted to lie, he couldn’t. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She says she hadn’t meant to read my diary, but it was lying around, and she noticed Hilda’s name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Burger deftly handled the situation, smoothly spouting off some lies in an effort to calm them down. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Why did you lie to me? You pretended to be a person and pretended to be my friend.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

John was lying on his back; he had just said that when you look up at the sky, you realize nothing that you ever do really matters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That night, l’m lying in my sleeping bag thinking about the rabbit and the snake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Dozens of plain wooden coffins of all sizes lie in a trench surrounded by the small crowd, all that remains of the Jewish community of Kielce, once twenty-five thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was paying for the lie and for the doll by giving up her pride. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m lying, and I vow, right this instant, to stop. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She’s lying in bed reading, on the other side of the privacy screens, but of course she still knows my eyelids have fluttered open to Friday morning. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She practically gasped, disgusted by the obviousness of my lie. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"And even the lie was . . . not without honor." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What he saw lying on the cot under a shiny green dress he believed was alive. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him fourteen but I have over forty and I’m not telling him because you never have to tell the truth to people who lie about your bad eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I won’t begin this story to you with a lie, Todd. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Seward, helplessly lying in bed, was sure to be home when the assassins arrived. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to picture her lying still, not moving. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She forgot to read the first act of Our Town, which wasn’t missing much, and I’m not lying. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a long time ago, but that lie stuck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He stopped, staring at the tawny body lying on the pine needles, and then at the white face of his son. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up shakily and collapse onto my bed, curling up into a tiny ball on the bare vinyl mattress, tears streaming down my face as I lie there, alone. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I did not give in to my sudden urge to kick him in the nuts, call him a jerk, and berate him for lying to sweet Claudia with the perfect tan and ridiculously long legs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And into his mind burst the vision of an emaciated old man lying in rags upon a stone floor, screaming, a horrible, drawn-out scream, a scream of unendurable agony.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And I started to get nervous that even though I wasn’t lying, she thought I was. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Mba, it’s a lie. This has to be a joke.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I was so scared. I thought you were dead. You were just ly— ly”— her voice broke—''‘lying there in the road!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Voldemort’s expression remained impassive as he said, “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I am lying in my bed, thinking about all this and looking around my room, at the walls, at the ceiling. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know. And I can see it in your eyes and in the way your body stands. A man can’t lie about a thing like that. You’ll like the boys, I think.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After prayers, after lights-out, Jutta sneaks up to her brother’s dormer; instead of drawing together, they lie hip to hip listening till midnight, till one, till two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He lies there still, but no headstone marks his grave. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to start laughing, too, and soon we were both hysterical, lying on our backs, tears running down our cheeks, slapping our feet on the porch floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I never regretted that you were born. I only regret how I handled it. I never should have lied about who you were.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, she had slid into her sleeping bag and was lying right beside me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Harry could just see the outline of something huge and curved, lying right across the tunnel. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I lie on the carpet next to Bieber, who is on his back looking absurd with his lips flapped up over his gums. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I lie back on the couch and look up at Sir Ott. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’m still so shaken up from my mom’s e-mails and worrying that Olly and I don’t have enough time for each other that I’m not prepared to hear my lie coming out of his mouth. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do they know I lied about being twenty-one? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wished he had known it was lying there the ten days he was in London, waiting to be read. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every mouthful she ate was displayed to her admiring younger cousins, half-chewed, mulched, lying on her tongue like fresh vomit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks me questions about everything— like my drinking—and if I lie he always figures it out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly explained everything as best I could, my handwriting was becoming illegible, he said, “Oskar wouldn’t lie to me.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a building lies in ruins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charles said that when Annie was unwell, “her mother lying down beside her seemed to soothe her in a manner quite different from what it would have done to any of our other children.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later, when she started attending school online, her mother lied about her daughter’s race and gender on the application. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that I actually spent hours lying on the couch watching Grandma knit, plotting ways to sneak into the kitchen and steal some meat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They lie to the west of here. How far, I do not know.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tub was pink, too, and it was full of water, and Bunny, fully clad, was lying motionless at the bottom of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The people you love? Your parents lied to you. Your Aunt Nin gave you up.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had planned on telling whatever lies were necessary to get the information I wanted from the witness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But he was still weak and started back into the tent to lie down on his sleeping bag. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear was no longer lying down; he had risen to his knees in the excitement of the story. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“At least rip out his tongue. This man’s lie could destroy us all, Magnificence.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I yell, for we are lying unsheltered in the open field. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clear Lake lies in mountainous country some 90 miles north of San Francisco and has long been popular with anglers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You need to lie down,” said Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t count how many nights I had lain awake, imagining our exact moment of meeting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Suppose, Paley wrote, a man walking across a heath happens upon a watch lying on the ground. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Tickling his ear with kisses and whispers, both of which felt like lies now. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was not willing to leave them lying open in the wilderness for any eyes to see. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I lie still, listening to the constant, distant wail of sirens coming from somewhere outside, my eyes fixed on an old water stain on the ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lie quietly for a while, eyes open, trying to catch my breath. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

One of my Sunday morning ordeals is having to lie in bed and look at Dussel’s back when he’s praying. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For no less under compulsion do men tell lies rather than the truth, either enduring rather than telling the truth or easily making false accusations so that the torture may stop sooner. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

While Hamza lies unconscious on the camp bed with the nurse hovering around him, Baba carries me through the dark streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A crudely drawn Olive Oyl lies on a bed with her legs open, naked but for her shoes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, he’s at eye level and then lying down on the filthy floor next to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And although Dr. Cable’s office back in the city might be one big lie detector, this table and chair were solid wood, without any tricks inside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was even willing to lie about my age and “borrow” a dress and hat from Mother’s dressing room in the face of such potential magnificence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had been transformed, and now, lying restlessly in bed in the dark, I felt a kind of affection for the blurred audience whose faces I had never clearly seen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, worn out, they just cast themselves on the ground under the lee of a boulder lying not far from the foot of the precipice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was amazed at the effortless way Lily lied, but she hadn’t thought of everything. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And the small, slight tail gunner was lying on the floor beside Snowden in a dead faint, his face as white as a handkerchief, so that Yossarian sprang forward with revulsion to help him first. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you want an honest answer, Willodeen? Or do you want me to lie?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

While Ron told Hagrid all about Charlie’s work with dragons, Harry picked up a piece of paper that was lying on the table under the tea cozy. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I think I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get the answer wrong, but I didn’t want to lie either. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And she would lie for hours on the floor, kicking and yelling in the most disturbing way. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t lie to me. Where did you get them?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thinking about rowing on the dark water makes me tired and I lie back on the dock for just a little while, with the current humming around the pilings. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Ben knew that the only child who could influence the battle at all was lying in bed awaiting the gift of courage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m angry having to lie there on the disgusting bedpan until Mami gets home and can’t stop thinking about the car accident. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I rush over to where he lies, motionless in a web of vines. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At night lying on the sleeping porch, Andrea and I had often heard women carrying on like this. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Billy Moore, his brains were lying out of his head.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I was little, if I had trouble falling asleep, Mom would lie down with me and tell the story of how she left England. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Things that had lain inside me, curled up like the turtle hatchlings newly emerged from their eggs, taking time in the dark of their nest to unfurl themselves. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he moved all these things aside, he saw a long, thin package lying underneath. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were crowded around someone lying on the ground. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"While I was lying on the table, Wernecke stood behind a door and made faces and motions to indicate to me that I should hold my breath and beat my chest," Haupt said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He’s lying there, in exactly the same position I left him, his hands at his sides, his eyes shut. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first lie that I had to tell. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And in what incidental details did their future fate lie? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mac left me. He broke my heart,” I say, which is the truth, but also a lie. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it; despite warnings and ghosts and shaky boycotts and cataclysmic girl-destroying exhalations, I lie down, rest my head on Oscar’s pillow, and breathe in the faint scent of him: peppery, sunny, wonderful. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Now we were supposed to get enthusiastic about long-range marriage plans, while lying here in bed watching our shoes mildew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not liking to sit in the cold and darkness, I thought I would lie down on my bed, dressed as I was. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was lying flat on it, my legs pointed towards the stern. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like I was lying inside a clearing in a forest of pale, hairy legs with white Burnt Mill Creek High School locker-room towels flocking their upper branches. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever might lie ahead, at least he could feel that he had not failed them so far. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it might be, the thing did not extend downward to the bottom: it was lying on the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday presents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Finn was surprised that Emma had said that in front of him, instead of making up some comforting lie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was in agony from having to lie for hours in such an unusual and uncomfortable position. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I thought of them and of the happy times spent in my house on the headland, of my canoe lying unfinished beside the trail. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up, eat breakfast, help Mamá Jacinta cook and clean, and then lie around reading and writing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As you head back from the house to the barn, the pasture, the far field, the pond and the brook all lie on your right. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because his bed is stacked with clothes and books, he drags a comforter out of his closet and we lie on the floor, the blanket wrapped around us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He turned Kevin over so he was lying flat on his back. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Chestnut's cross-examination of Myers made it clear that the witness was lying. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But if he’d gotten to the training center in the first place, it surely meant that somewhere along the line he probably lied. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When finally I reached the place, all out of breath, I found her lying dead, with a bullet hole through her middle, right where it had to have shattered the heart. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few floors above him, Johnson lies alone in his room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly I jump back into the dug-out and find him with a small scratch lying in a corner pretending to be wounded. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the door, he could see pieces of wreckage lying around, but there wasn’t as much debris falling on this side, not as much stuff on fire. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because no vital body parts had been damaged and the bullet was lying harmlessly in fatty tissue, it wouldn't necessarily have to be removed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Will saw the knife lying on the table in the center of the room, but before he could pick it up the old man was limping toward him with a bowl of water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faces lie on top of newspaper articles and headlines, only I take the words from the headlines and spell out new titles, rewrite history. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Joyce Ann was lying on her bed screaming because she had yanked the string out of her talking doll and it was no longer talking. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he took two of them off the spindly branch where they were lying, blew gently into their faces as they opened their eyes and yawned, and put them in his pocket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was actually a great relief to Emma, who had been worried that her mother was lying there feeling terrible for missing the ceremony. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the volume up and lie on my bed. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Each revolution of the bike pedals was more painful than the last, and all Wes wanted to do was lie down and forget the morning. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“The sword must lie buried with Martin. You would have little use for the dusty bones of a bygone hero. A simple deduction, even for one as old as I am.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But with the khal off hunting, it was pleasant to lie back on soft cushions and be carried across Vaes Dothrak, with red silk curtains to shield her from the sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I lie on the couch with my arm draped over Ollie. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Old master'll lie in the grave and stretch out his arms, To lay his body down. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly felt stupid lying there in the dark. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed silly to lie on the bed with one shoe off, so I sat up and unlaced the other shoe and dropped it on the floor, then lay back on the blanket again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They saw nothing more, until they stumbled over the body of Frodo, lying as if dead, face downwards on the grass with his sword beneath him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I fake curiosity and head in the direction of the jungle and the cave that lies beyond. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Behind her, he can see June at her place at the table, very clearly aware that he’s lying too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Silver Star is lying on his side, and Marlena is kneeling next to him, still wearing the rose dress from the night before. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It was a big point in my life, and I chose to look people square in the eye and lie about it.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She groaned, lying back again and blinking up at the gray sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The grand palace rose above the rest of the city like a mountain, the thick snow lying on its tiered roofs like heavy clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“He lied to us about his father. The parents divorced last year. Finch sees him once a week.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"I'm not lying. I never saw it before in my life. But suppose I had, what's wrong with it?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of lying on the floor of my living room, I was lying on the ground in the sun, almost directly over a hill of large black ants. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the benefits of being the athlete that is often overlooked is that it forces you to work harder, to keep your head down, and grind through whatever task lies ahead. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From here I can see just a hint of the person lying inside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I was aware. Under the Sdrum. I could have lied; I could have kept it from you. But I didn’t, because I thought you deserved to know the truth.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a lie, and Ophie just hoped it bolstered whatever pleas Penelope had made. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s better to be honest, especially since I’m lying about near everything else in my life these days. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When she asked, “What do you want to do that for?” all Shorty could say was, “Don’t ask me no questions, woman, and 1 won’t tell you no lies.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now—lie down!” the officer commanded at last. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Aunt Gloria must have been in more agony than anyone else because it was her son that might or might not be lying on that cold slab. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss shuddered and remembered: the feeling of Javier lying on his chest, on the couch, in his arms, a body somehow cooler than his own. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I felt bad lying to an old lady, but I had to. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Why did lying always give him such a lump in his throat? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You look to me like you be lying, gal. If I find you been lying to me, I swear I’ll kill you all. Nathan!” he called suddenly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin said he had been lying about his mother’s escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He motioned toward a pile of crumpled jute sacks lying in a corner. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In her professional life, she was so good at lying low that it is difficult to discover exactly what she was up to during this period. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The kind that lies down when he’s told to. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a secret—a lie that had been in my life since before I was born. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She'd been lying on top of Needle, or else it would have been gone too; it was worth more than all the rest together. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was lying all sprawled out in the sunshine with all four paws bandaged and sticking straight up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to my room and lie on my bed, going over my memories of the night before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It unnerved her, how easy it had been to lie to Moody again, but she shook the feeling aside, as if she were brushing off cobwebs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She began to relax into it and lie more fluently. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they say about females being the weaker sex is the biggest lie in the world. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have lain here, near insensible, for six days.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kitten lies recklessly under the runners, and she shoos it away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here lies one, she thought gracefully, whose name was writ in blood; is it possible that I am not quite coherent at this moment? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes open, and his body lying crooked on the ground. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You were lying. You said you wouldn’t go to Erudite, and you were lying, and going to Erudite would make you an idiot. So don’t.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. McArdle asked from across the cabin, still lying on her right side. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My mother has to lie and say she only made half the money she really made so she can get us something to eat for the day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth and gathered the bruised ginger and onions lying scattered along the road and tossed them in my satchel. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He recalled the peace of lying at his boy’s feet in front of the fire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She patted under her pillows, then looked around the room and pointed to a small puddle of satin lying on the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Cardan is lying on a blanket, his head tipped back and his loose white shirt unbuttoned. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A photograph was lying between the pages—the photograph of Capricorn's maid, the woman who had tried to help Dustfinger and was to die for it tonight! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now she was truly alone on the water, without a trace of land and with no idea of how far away it might lie. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was lying almost beside the palace, and he found her at once. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t lying about blocking my Hebrew education from memory, but it’s amazing how fast it comes back. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I lie down flat on my back in the middle of the stream and let the water cover me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While he listened to her shower melody, ‘i’m as Corny as Kansas in August,” Shorty just kept on lying there, puzzled about the strange sensations buffeting his body. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body of the victim was lying halfway . . . his legs were half sticking out from behind the counter. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only have a vague picture of a room, lying down on a carpet in rows with other kids like me for a nap time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

With each lie he told, the next became easier. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“In fact, all that your husband and you told me was a tissue of lies.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pleased me that she was willing to lie for me, even in such a small thing, even for her own advantage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say that I’m young—that I’ll get over it. Go ahead and say it. Go ahead and lie.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t even feel like a lie at this point. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He wondered if somewhere in the city Vegas was lying in bed dreaming about fighting, about their fight. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fled to Boston once, through the Bay, and all had lain before us, novel and unknown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Unresisting, he lies back down, but just stares at the needle on one of the dials as it twitches from side to side. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They peered at him through the window, but they wouldn’t let him in, so he wandered through the meadow, afraid to lie down in the tall grass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was no sense in denying the truth or lying to Thorn or herself. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I lie here, bundled in my winter coat and scarf, I can smell Dad’s wafting pot smoke, and I find three planes all flying in a row in the dusky sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Prince Cardan is waiting for me in the clearing, lying on his back, as though he’s been counting stars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because right then, I almost wished I could go back to living the lie that everyone else embraced so wholeheartedly. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed, stick my foot up in the air, and dangle the locket off one toe. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

O Lord — say that he shall not go there — decree it — the mud where men lie whitening as they die. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I will stay lying in front of the trench until they answer me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bad one could call my family and lie that I am captive and demand ransom. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes twitch, wanting to shut so I do not have to look at the bodies lying on the floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he saw the numbers, the shift juggling, the outright lies and borderline crimes he'd committed to put this mission together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t you like lie down or go to the birthing center or something?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I actually believe you. You just don’t have an ounce of lying in those eyes of yours. And I can’t bloody believe I’m about to say this.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If we once give in to it we shall just lie down and drowse forever and ever.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But it is the first since my leave, and besides, the lie of the land is still rather strange to me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the difference lies in the way we have been growing up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig was still lying in the bilgewater, in the place he had taken up when they came to the first bridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had already cried while Gregor was still lying quietly on his back. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember playing with the lounging chair when I was little, tipping the wooden handle and lying back. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I hope they lie next to each other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I hadn’t noticed the view, but out before us lie mountains, villages, and rivers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so good to lie there, but she knew she’d left a trail of blood behind her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hat and gloves were lying on the table. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the men were lying in their tents reading or playing cards. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At dusk the train stops and Neumann Two leads Werner on foot through rows of ruined houses, beams and bricks lying in charred heaps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

More men and women run to where he lies. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on the floor beside the fanciful rocking horse, hands laced behind his head. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We go upstairs together and I take Cheddar and lie down on my bed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There, lying in bed, was a young man, obviously injured. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Thinking fast, I lied and told him not to worry, that the blood was from a cut on his Up. That calmed him a little, and we continued down.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the fact that he was a dirty, lying mooch, of course. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would look up and there would be nothing but the empty white sheet lying over the fields and hills. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Guareschi helped me back to the waiting room, and Mrs. Baker made me lie down on three of the chairs—“Stay on your side and be still”—while she called my father. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were lying in his bed, half dressed, having skipped lacrosse and field hockey practice for a different kind of exercise. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lied, of course, and told her how respected and beloved he was in Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the diver had found her lying there, on the cabin floor.... Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She lied the same way to her friends. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I notice my pocket-size sketchbook lying on my dresser, the regimen crammed into the back of it, neatly folded and just barely sticking out past the small pages of the book. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes, she was lying in the grass, covered in muck. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He would like to have taken some coffee beans—a man lying out in the woods all night needed a hot drink; but that item was one he would not take. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Balekin is going to murder his brother, he’s smart enough not to leave evidence lying around. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She sees how hard it is for me to write lying flat on my back in bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jaime got used to standing in for Nicolas, and it seemed perfectly normal to him to be punished instead of his brother, to do his homework and cover up his lies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, the chiles are burning my eyes,” I lie. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m not gonna lie to you, people. This place could use a major face-lift. Maybe some new lockers. And a new refrigerator to keep the chocolate milk from curdling.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he couldn’t even see the difference between truth and lies anymore. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Don’t lie! This is not only a school, but God’s holy ground,” she said with angry indignation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else was just so much smoke and lies. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If a man confessed anything on his deathbed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never lie to you. I don’t have to.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“To be sure, and therein lies the key to my skill. Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

August, May, June, and Rosaleen were supposedly over in the pink house in their rooms lying under the fans with the lights out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would rather live authentically and take whatever consequences may come of it than live a lie. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Thoughts about how maybe I could just lie. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, very well, I lied about the ‘good’ part. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night, Mariam was lying in bed when the bickering started again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Dad always knows when I’m lying, but I’m sure he appreciates the gesture.... Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not lying, her typing was a sight to see. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, a person who hesitated over his birthdate was probably about to lie. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And we live by the lies we believe—at least until the actual reality becomes overwhelming. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had just said my Sunset Prayer, El Maghrib-, I was lying on my cot in the fourth-tier compartment, feeling blue and alone, when out of the darkness came a sudden light! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't even know how serious it is," she says, but I know that she's lying. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Two of our dead lie in the upturned graves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea was lying flat on the floor because that was good for her posture, but with news like this, I was surprised that she still cared about her posture. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to where Mr. Travis was blocking the door, me and Cooter lied at the same time, “Very good sermon today, sir.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was so deep she found herself nearly lying down, but she sat up again and tucked her legs under her to look at the portraits on the walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One, from Djibouti, said little, lying and staring at the ceiling as though retracing the journey of how he had ended up at a holding facility in Manchester Airport. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Methuselah,” he said kindly, “hadn’t you better lie down awhile?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I lie back on my blanket and stare up at the night sky. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to have to tell the Tiffany lie. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was odd, and sad, but I felt more alone with that sailor lying there than in all the time I’d been waiting for him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘As for me,’ said Boromir, ‘my way home lies onward and not back.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Nobody ought to die the way he would have—lying in a ditch, drowning in mud and whiskey and his own vomit.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I edge closer and now I know that it’s not Teddy lying there. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the face of the sailor lying so still in my bed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The pieces made him promises, but the promises were lies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He sat up and then he saw that Frodo was lying beside him, and slept peacefully, one hand behind his head, and the other resting upon the coverlet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

People lying down on single sheets of newspaper or sitting on the bare ground staring at nothing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Made me see how my entire life, long before the winter of 1975, dating back to when that singing Hazara woman was still nursing me, had been a cycle of lies, betrayals, and secrets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And admit that you've been lying to her from the start? another argued right back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Who has made of the world a lie every word. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at the towers of the little clean Martian village, like sharply carved chess pieces lying in the afternoon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You shut your lying mouth, woman. You don't know what you're saying, his lordship's a fine true man." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I found it lying on a curb in my neighborhood a couple years ago,” he said of the couch as he worked on setting up my PlayStation 2 on top of his footlocker. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No. You lie. You disappoint me,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twists the dial to the RRG, and as he listens, he grows angry all over again at its twisted lies. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who had two strokes and still didn’t talk too much, was lying near by. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept them lying on his knees, palms up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on top of my bed without getting in it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I saw a Muslim man lying on the ground, his throat slashed, his eyes rolled back. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Oh, it is sickening; reminds me of lying in childbed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Did she lie to me about my big sister being here? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“They were right. It did. But not quite as sick as you lying to me for Coin.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger looked at his dusty boots, at a twisted iron bar lying among the stones, anywhere but at the cat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I know you lie to old woman, but it nice lie, thank you.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"This little pipsqueak is trying to frighten us, but he has got a lot to learn about lying. Isn't that right, Jay?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Coach yelling at me during practice messed with my head, and I still feel a little out of sorts, even though I realize Boy21 basically lied to him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only things left behind at the base of the wall were a walking stick, a washboard, and an enamel cup, lying on its side. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Håkon was on the bed, lying on his back, hands up in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t a lie, exactly, although it wasn’t exactly the truth, either. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this world it was harder to tell lies than she’d thought. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm not lying, you wouldn't want to be where Lil was for very long. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she had come back home, social conversation was impossible for her because she could not lie. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, she was lying in her bed at Quinn House, a thick, silvery-white cloak thrown over her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd nod my head, envisioning a pair of glistening lips lying forsaken on the floor of some nightclub dressing room. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was lying on something very soft—so soft that she thought at first she was in her own bed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They want me lying down propped up by my elbows on a platform, tossing a little coin bag. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“There will only be one lie between us.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in Pauling’s masterpiece I hoped the real secret would lie. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I was sure he wasn’t going to answer me, when he said, “How I think you’re lying. And that I wish you’d tell her hi for me.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched his face for any sign of a lie, but saw nothing except the usual annoyance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For these situations, we were taught how to cause pain through “pressure points”—places where clusters of nerves lie just under the skin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quoted one man saying, “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried. You lie there on your bunk knowing you’ve got cancer in your arm. . . . Boy, what you think about!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Foreign radio! How could we listen to foreign radio? We haven’t had a short-wave radio for thirty years, since the Japanese invaded. Fan’s lying!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few kilometers, I lie that, yes, it is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He avoided looking at the sheeted figure lying on the bed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

My mother always told me to be polite, but, of course, she also said lying was one of the worst things you could do. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It keeps me from having to lie to my friends about my results. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But this next part is no lie: When we got back in from recess, Mrs. Bigio and Mrs. Baker were holding two trays filled with fried bananas. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"That way, mighty steed! Yonder lies the East!" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Months later, Boynton accused him of lying, telling a medical journal that "neither the President nor Mrs. Garfield ever asked him to take charge of the case." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Amaranta felt humiliated and told Pietro Crespi with a virulent anger that she was prepared to stop her sister's wedding even if her own dead body had to lie across the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of our porch from where I lie on the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And that lie, the one about his friends the night of Neumos, it nags at her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Poppy said their skins would feel so sticky after plunging into the Dead Sea, they’d have to lie down under freshwater spigots to wash off. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing Flynn knew, he had flown through the hole and was now lying in the harbor, with his feet tangled in a pile of wreckage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And all the while my Mrs. de Winter, my lady with her smile and her lovely face and brave ways, the real Mrs. de Winter, lying dead and cold and forgotten in the church crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I will strive against it,” I promised, a fresh lie. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking of Lily Parker, who used to lie down on the lobby couches and rest her head in my lap, looking up and saying, “You have the most perfect chin.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“They lie. When the British fled Boston, back in the spring, they took escaping slaves with them. They promised them freeeeeeedom.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe not, ’cause Todd hadn’t quit lying since the second I came to his house. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was lying back on the settee now, tugging a sock over his foot and trying to sound casual, but I knew he was anxious for my reaction. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I were you I should have a good long lie to-morrow morning. Don’t attempt to get up. Have your breakfast in bed.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“To quote a famous peculiar: ‘At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.’” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

While Jeffrey ran for help, I held Mr. Terupt’s head, putting my hat and coat under it so that it wasn’t lying on the cold snow. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

But then again, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little envious of her. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those lies were part of what he liked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to lie, but her eyes were scrutinizing my face, and I knew she would see through that. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He also rehearsed in his head the lie about his occupation. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll’s sewing, which had fallen sadly behind-hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hawaii’s Big Island, though lying well within the Tropic of Cancer, has mountains high enough to support alpine habitats and receive occasional snowfalls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then JP said, “Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about how horrible my life could be if you hated me,” and he added, “stalker.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I mean, yeah, I’m mad that you didn’t tell me. That you’ve been lying to me for I don’t know how long. And that you forced Mom to work with Daniel.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk out, unsure of what lies ahead. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Margot and Mr. van Daan wish, above all else, to have a hot bath, filled to the brim, which they can lie in for more than half an hour. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to have to lie about how I discovered it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Your fists go stiff and you stagger up the cement stairs to your door in the unmarked halls to your cement room and you lie down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the forests he lies, perhaps behind some rock, some tree? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his left side in Granny’s big bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Hours later, lying down again, she thought about seeing those soldiers and remembered something Papa had said about Mr. Taylor when he was very angry. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Those boys could have found him, beaten him, and left him lying on the ground. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I asked him to lie down with me in his bed so I could read him another book, and eventually he did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if they do? What if they were lied to?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could lie on that comfortable bed and think. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“What’s so complicated about you lying and taking advantage of my sister? You were never going to leave your wife, were you?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was lying on its side because its legs were tied together. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You beat up Ton-Ton when he was lying on the floor.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep in mind that the police are allowed to lie. They can say anything to you. Set any kind of trap.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ophie didn’t even like lying to her mama about the ghosts; something like sneaking out was out of the question. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Daisy was not a Catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It rattled the latch on her hope chest and her father’s old worry beads lying on top. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He docs as he’s told, kicking off his shoes and lying back on the bed, docile as a sick child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood into childhood. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

So she had lain there, pulse thudding, eyes wide open. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Toomer lying on his back, his two large hands clamped over a stomach wound. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so late in the night, when they took mortar fire from across the river, all they could do was snake down under the slop and lie there and wait. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telling a white lie was something she’d never before given me permission to do. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the edges of the pond, before it whitened up, you could lie down on the clear ice and see pebbles and drowned sticks and sand. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

A wriggle of the arms, a lifting first of the right foot, then the left: the zippicamiknicks were lying lifeless and as though deflated on the floor. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fought them, trying to lie down in the ditch beside the blanket already partially buried in the mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

More lies we tell ourselves because reality is too much to hold all at once. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And the manager must have been having a bad day, because lying there on the floor, right in front of everybody, he started to cry. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

What I remember on waking up was that it was early Saturday morning, and I was lying under the table. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if the girl was lying about the bet, I was still interested. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Mouse lie. King Bull not wormfool! Where you get? Tell, tell.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

So I lie on it and I look at the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She was lying there, injured, and he had not stopped to help her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So convincing were these dreams of lying awake that he awoke from them each morning in complete exhaustion and fell right back to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Keep up the lies and keep me in my place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him about my broken leg and how I stared at the ceiling for a long time and how I read two or three books every day lying in bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s too freaked out that I lied, then unlied, then started a psychotic art history lesson? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I lied, “Yes, ma’am, my little sister that pass two years ago looked exactly like your baby.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was in the middle of the night and I was lying on the floor, beneath the thin blanket I shared with my brothers, pretending to sleep. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybeth looked small lying there, her curls spread behind her on the pillow, her hands folded over the clean sheets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t lie down, I’m going to pass out, I’m going to fall. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world around him tilted as they both sank to the ground, adjusted so that they were lying there side by side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“No; I shan’t tell you anything of the sort, though I shouldn’t be lying if I did.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“All right then. I won’t tell your husband what you did. Now lie back and let me see if the bleeding’s stopped.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was lying on her back, her head tilted sideways, looking at Mariam intently with a mixture of amusement, confusion, and suspicion. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As I turn back, I see my purse, lying on the floor where I put it, and after all these years I should know better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent all his poor Grammaw Reilly’s insurance money to keep him in college for eight years, and since then all lie’s done is lay around the house watching television.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a nickname my uncle Paul gave me,” I lie. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He was never my friend,” I said to her, but quickly realized that I shouldn’t lie to Blanca anymore. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

At nights, in my little room in the base- ment, I lie awake with my stomach aching and wonder what would happen if my friends found out who I really am. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s cold in this room. You can lie down if you want and get under the blanket.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thinking that, I bent my bead, and saw, lying on the anvil, a miracle: that sprig of hawthorn — from his cloak, on the anvil. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

"I hear it when you are lying very close to me on the pillow at night." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering if you have any rod-iron lying around,” he said, not meeting the smith’s eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remain on the roof for a few more hours, and then I lie in bed looking up at the weird green glow of the galaxy Russ gave me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That one right there. See? That is the face, and that is the long nose of someone telling a lie.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was lying on solid ground, the sound of the ocean far distant. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A glint of deep red...It was a sword with glittering rubies in its hilt....The sword of Gryffindor was lying at the bottom of the forest pool. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then I lied and said I was going Trick-or-Treating as a Mummy, tonight, for that very reason, and they all howled.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I cry and I cry, and Max lies down beside me, covering us both with his arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s acting too frightening to love, and her lies are another rejection, but she’s in an impossible bind she can’t fake her way out of. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’d even suspected him of outright lying to her about what he’d seen just to get her to do the job. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was counting on my ability to lie for the rest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Sir,’ she said, ‘I am in great unrest, and I cannot lie longer in sloth.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She hadn't realized he could lie quite so convincingly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A second later, I was running toward the two still gray forms lying side by side. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d lie there on the cowhide and look up at the stars and listen to the warm night breeze rustling the corn blades. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chair was filled with books, most of them lying open, one on top of another. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m staring at myself, at the “live” Mia now, lying in her hospital bed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could only assume that it was down in Hokey’s contract that she must lie through her teeth when asked this question, because Hepzibah Smith looked a long way from lovely in his opinion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’m grateful at least that I don’t have to lie about this. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew she didn’t want me to lie about her life. She wanted me to tell the truth, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t tell the truth about anything.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The parents wanted me to make sure you two were all right up here,” I lie. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“And if he's just come to tell us he can't do anything about the mess we're in, then you might as well wring his lying neck!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I been lying on one place for so long, they finally found me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is the infinite that lies at the heart of Zeno’s paradox: Zeno had taken continuous motion and divided it into an infinite number of tiny steps. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Until she and her mother come here and tell me they lied, I believe them. They’re good people.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies—falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the apartment, I stretch out on the. bed and think about how Dad used to lie right here when he was a kid. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nurse Molly called Mom and had me lie down on the sofa next to her desk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He knew it was important that he make himself nearly ghostlike when lying down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

DeVante lies on the floor in the fetal position at the foot of a king-size bed. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Yet the roots of inequality in the modern world lie far back in prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ramon sat up suddenly in the bed, where he had lain ill for days, and felt the fever begin to seep from him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mango jumps off my lap and chases halfheartedly after the pencil before lying down to wash himself. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And then, sitting hunched up in the cargo area, Alex had recognized the two bundles lying on the floor next to him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“A likely excuse! You’ve been at the machine oil again. Don’t lie to me! I checked the level yesterday.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Facing my pallid reflection in the mirror, I was forced to admit that I was lying to myself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lifted up a stick that was lying nearby and he brought this down heavily on his mother’s head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Full fathom five thy father lies,” Leah said back to her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left to scope out the living room, where I found Sean lying on the couch, snoring. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In a flash she invented a lie and up went her hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel ill? Do you want to lie down?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the truth, she told herself; not a single word she’d said had been a lie. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He just lies there in his carriage, gazing solemnly up at me with his round blue eyes as his button of a nose gets redder and redder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disappointed we lie down and consider whether we couldn’t have a go at the iron rations. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discover two bedrooms, both under a thick layer of dust, one with a figure lying under a cobwebby shroud on the bed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He thought the boy was a dog, that is, when the boy came out of the shadow Big Time imagined that it was a small dog that had been lying in the shadows. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have fallen stunned when he hurled himself against them; but how long he had lain there he did not know. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to lie to her, but at the same time I couldn’t risk telling her too much. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Who even now could walk freely into his room if she wanted to and smell his clothes, stroke his shoes, and lay her head on the very spot where he had lain his. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart walked up to the great sword for the third time. lie pot out his right hand softly and drew it out as gently as from a scabbard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she went to the store and bought him a big bottle of sunscreen, and the next time she visited, she saw it lying on his dresser, forgotten and unused. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Since treating his wounds seems pointless when he's lying in what's become a mud puddle, I manage to prop him up against a boulder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mom asked what class we had and I said math, which wasn’t a total lie. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He looked carefully at me to see if I was lying or not. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The brutally cold splash was necessary to wake her and brace for whatever “unpleasantness” might lie ahead. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Because I lie to everyone, all the time. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It lies in your eyes and the mark is on your face. What is it?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying in the bed with his eyes closed, but when he heard me, he opened them and said, sounding very tired: “Is he gone?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were really cool, and smart, and I really felt bad about lying to you and everything.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s only after I lie back down on the couch that night that I realize what all I’ve done. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined her alone, lying in bed, reading or casting spells or devouring small children. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had gone upstairs to lie down, as he reported later, “before all these astounding miracles, or jugglery, took place.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would lie on the ground with the trees folded over me, wearing her gloves, smiling at her photograph. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she whined to the policeman, verifying Milkman’s and Guitar’s lie that they had ripped off the sack as a joke on an old lady, she had to look up at him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon said, "My lord father believed no man could tell a lie in front of a heart tree. The old gods know when men are lying." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And Boromir will tell you that that is a great open vale that lies between the Misty Mountains and the northmost foothills of Ered Nimrais, the White Mountains of his home. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for me to realize someone was lying there. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on the black rubber cot and close my eyes, trying to stave off the nausea. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, wondering why she was saying all this, lying to Shay when she didn’t really have to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Told me to lie still so the bones didn’t move under my skin. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He later published a biography about Poe that was full of lies and attacked his character. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their TV’s on, and they’re both lying on their stomachs on the bed, one of her legs on his as she types on her laptop. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My mind is working hard trying to figure if he’s lying or tricking me or just likes books as much as I do. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t pay any attention because she had sensed it was a lie. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamber- lain came back for one last look around. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I thought about maybe writing for a newspaper instead because I could ask regular people questions, but my sister says that newspapers always lie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem concerned about spending hours lying in the sun, because their olive skin only burnished and became more radiant, while mine either freckled or fried. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Dad takes the wheel, Richard moves to the passenger seat, and Mother lies next to me and Audrey on the mattress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Needles said he was fine, and then I realized that he had to have known we were lying because, long as I've known them, they've never had anything to drink in their house. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Kambili, it’s your father. They called me from the factory, they found him lying dead on his desk.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Another lie, Ted. One of these days you’ll be nearly normal.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The materials had lain all winter at the end of Jon’s road. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he gave it a running push and jumped on it, eventually lying stomach down, his arms outstretched as he held on to both ends of the T. “What was that?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he would lie for us, given the harm these wights could cause his people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It would lie about inside his blotter, and he would answer it weeks later, one Sunday morning in a hurry, before lunch, having come across it when he paid some bills. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

How could you tell how much of it was lies? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The lies were piling up and making me feel funny. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lie,” I explained, as we walked out into the lobby. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were half-closed, like those of a lizard lying on a rock about to flick out its tongue to catch a fly. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom looked so comfortable lying there on the bed, I had to get horizontal. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The worst thing was lying there wanting my mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Hermes carried it to be cared for by the nymphs of Nysa—the loveliest of earth’s valleys, but no man has ever looked upon Nysa or knows where it lies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to, he was lying on the sidewalk in a circle of concerned bystanders, his head and face aching. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You better not be lying. You know I always find out.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It took two more rings before my fumbling hands found the phone lying on the unrolled carpet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What’re you doing here?” he said, scrambling to his feet again; why did she always have to find him lying on the floor? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Like him, I am willing to step forward, unafraid of who or what lies ahead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wipes her eyes a few times, probably thinking about Khalil or how that could’ve been me lying in the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Daisy was lying down sideways on the floor with her legs straight out in front of her. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I meant that it can’t be that easy to just lie about people so openly.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a lie that Donna is telling herself, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Vexed and annoyed, I cried out to the absent Hamlet, “You are a knave indeed to abuse me so with your lies and promises! You are not worthy of my love!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When we asked him to lie down, he’d humor us, dropping first to his knees, then to his butt, then spreading himself out obligingly, faceup on the living room carpet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing—you won’t believe this—they hear chamber music. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You would bring us the whisperings of a traitor half a world away, my lord. Perhaps Mormont is wrong. Perhaps he is lying." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Byron said he could remember that she was the meanest, ugliest person in the world but he was probably lying, he was only four the last time Momma and Dad were here. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was full of misery at my lie, but I found I could not disabuse him of it—I could conjure no words sufficient. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Ugwu wondered if the child had liked it because it gave him a chance to rest, lying down on the grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I get home, Jay’s lying across the living room sofa. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now the idea of leaving Sahel to lie here in the dirt, as alone as he’d been in the last grisly seconds of his life, unsettled her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to lie down,” she called, “with your head back. So’s the blood will stop.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“If they kill me,” he said, “lie quietly. And when they are gone away, go to Loreto. ” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was in a state of disarray—sewing projects abandoned upon the spinnet, shutters drawn, dogs sleeping on the settee, dirty plates and platters still lain on the table, the food crusted to their rims. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I would like to say that he underestimates me, but that would be a lie. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The wide golden prairie that Lee Scoresby’s ghost had seen briefly through the window was lying quiet under the first sun of morning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A mattress so thin he could feel the springs in his back, like lying on a bed of fists. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I lie here and ask myself, Just how many things do I have to invent in my head to survive this? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And though the old woman assured the girl that she had always slept like that and nothing had changed nor would it ever change, Luna knew it was a lie. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When her eyes adjusted, she made out the girl and her baby lying on the floor on top of a quilt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I lie on my mattress, with the orange and turquoise blanket pulled under my chin, unable to sleep. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just so I would know I hadn’t been lying completely, I did go to the bathroom on my way to the band room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is that when Patrick dared me, I knew that if I kissed Mary Elizabeth, I would be lying to everyone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye,” Chacko said grandly, lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying in the bed with his head on the pillow, his palms flat under his head and his elbows jutting upward. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they lied,” the big man had replied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My dad showed people his ticket, and we eventually made our way to the gate, weaving our way through the obstacle course of people lying on the floor. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she knew that it would help me to better see that I was caught, and that the lying better stop instantly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He is quite skilled at manipulation. Did you not once lie to people yourself, telling them only what they wished to hear?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She should have been angry, having seen the wedding portrait in his drawer, but his lie made it easier for her to go forward with her own. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. In fact, the only thing I know right now is that the Abbot was right. I think I'd better go and lie down for a bit.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kate was already working on it—she pointed to a large petrified tree limb lying among the stony rubble nearby. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo had stopped; he was lying next to her and smoothing her forehead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I consider lying, but gorillas are terrible liars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He folds his pillow in half, lies back, and grabs a book from the crate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Yes...but the bus driver lied and said none of us were from there...He's a hero, isn't he, Amma?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I guess I even improved upon her lie. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he must have lied, is that right? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I jumped to my feet and Ulape screamed and other cries sounded along the cliff, I saw a figure lying on the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nate looked at the Hessian, lying on the ground, and he knew what to do. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

A large open room that could be a food court at any mall lies directly behind the park. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thank her and lie on the vinyl sofa in the corner of the lounge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled and felt briefly guilty for lying to him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For a long time there had been a shriveled boot lying exposed on grass kept trim by rabbits. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Boy, don’t even try to lie to me. Look at his neck, Bo.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Stanley wondered why the Warden lied about the suitcase. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The ground ran in front of me, thinned beneath me, became a spiderweb of truth and lies. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He sat at my feet, stretching his bare ones out and lying back on the dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The door is barely closed before I fling my laptop open, calling Stella on Skype as I lie upside down off my bed, pink bedpan in one hand for mucus disposal. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I would never tell you to lie to your parents, Albie,” she said at last. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell Papa doesn't believe my lie. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anxious to rescue in the course of a few months what had lain in ruins for years, the patron hired every man, woman, old person, and child who could stand on his own two feet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that my mom had gone into Abuela’s apartment and found her lying peacefully in bed, but when she didn’t respond, my mom knew something was wrong. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But at least in the country, they don’t leave dead bodies lying around everywhere,” James said with a shudder. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The real risk had been in whether or not someone as honest as Matthias could convincingly lie to his mentor’s face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say Pop's cooking is better, but we both know that'd be a lie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The conquests of Alexander in the late fourth century gave the Greeks firsthand experience of Persia, India, and the Asian kingdoms lying between. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Part of him just wanted to lie on the bed and take it. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the Seniors, we were down to six per dorm, so it was just our little group, and we often had our most intimate conversations lying in the dark before we fell asleep. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it’s our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the store it had seemed beautiful, but with Lynn lying in bed so pale and sick, the streamer seemed all wrong. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How long ago were these harvested? And don’t you dare lie to me!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The only people I don’t lie to are girls, but that’s because I almost never talk to them and it’s hard to lie when your lips aren’t moving. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lied, but he lied big enough that it wasn’t just a lie, it was a joke. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s lying on my feet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the photos, Jim’s head lies back, his eyes closed, a crisscrossing of red blood across his head more suggestive of a bar fight than a fatal wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was lying on the bench by the window and it had been cleaned because there was no blood on the spikes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She should have lied through her teeth to ensure that he would get the point. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Peeta lets it lie on his open palm, neither rejecting nor accepting it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the carpet, feeling the pounding in my brain, when Tyler found me and folded himself onto the sofa near my head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The lie would insure that Mamá had a happy holiday, Lupita thought. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Your dress is pretty,” I lied, noticing for the first time there were no lunch fixings anywhere. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down on my stretcher, take my hoodie off, and throw it over my face. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can tell when she lies, and she’s genuinely clueless about the rally cry at dinner last night about how badly I need a boyfriend. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In it we had lain together, and our children had been born. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The match burned close enough to Ophie’s fingertips that she blew it out before lying flat on her stomach and reaching farther under the bureau. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But even with my skill at lying I would have a hard time explaining broken locks and a missing script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here lies our comrade, Kemmerich, who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell-holes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Montag, lying there, eyes gritted shut with dust, a fine wet cement of dust in his now shut mouth, gasping and crying, now thought again, I remember, I remember, I remember something else. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flung his circlet, belt, and rings on the grass, and looked round helplessly, as if he expected to find his cloak, jacket, and breeches, and other hobbit-garments lying somewhere to hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In Europe and Asia, farmers try to avoid stressing the soil by rotating crops; they may plant wheat one year, legumes the next, and let the field lie fallow in the year following. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On my birthday, Mami offers to invite Sam over, but I already told him I was twelve two weeks ago, so I don’t want to be caught in a lie. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But since I was only me, all I could do was lie there and contemplate everything perverted I had ever dreamed about since I was, like, seven years old. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Often, returning in the evenings, he would find her still lying there, the tea untouched. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The coyote had probably been hit by a car on the highway and then limped out here into the middle of the wash to lie down and die. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As I say, the craze really took off that summer, and during the lunch breaks you’d see all these clusters of students lying about the grass around the Walkmans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to properly teach you my language,” Celaena lied. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the four remaining soldiers ushered every single one of the prisoners out of the bus and made them lie down side by side on their faces in the middle of the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As I pushed aside the mountain laurel, I saw three two-by-fours and some planks lying across several of the lower limbs of the tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want him being nosy, because she didn’t want to have to lie to him, but she would’ve because she couldn’t snitch on Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Hidden within every astronomical investigation, sometimes so deeply buried that the researcher himself is unaware of its presence, lies a kernel of awe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup-kitchen; I squat on many a bench;—then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t really tents—just white mosquito netting hung or draped to make a space so they could lie down inside. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not lying, I got good at this. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had to stop and think, it’s one thing to lie to a grown-up, most times adults want to hear something that lets them take their attention off you and put it on something else. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I spot a sword and belt someone has left lying in the sand. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I think I can imagine you lying on a carpet somewhere listening to it, eating Oreos, and maybe writing in a journal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Was he lying in a sickbed thinking of me? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see my new jacket lying in the ferns, and the hunter looking for it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of lying on gritted ground, he tumbled with Gray and his brother kits across a snowy tundra spiked with starry blue flowers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel bad about lying, I doubt he believed most of it anyway. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying in the corner, watching me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little farther along, an entire apartment building has collapsed and lies in a mound under the gel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

‘Many, many years lie on it. Surely this is a blade wrought by our own kindred in the North in the deep past?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Come to my place tonight, and I'll prove the Nazis are lying. But wait until after nine, after my grandparents go to bed." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did those white bones lying on that table evoke the gasp of horror that went up from the nation? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any books with me,” I lied. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Tobias gets us sleeping pallets and blankets, and I find an empty corner for us to lie down in. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lee Chong sent his boxed and brittle grandfather over the western sea to lie at last in ground made holy by his ancestors. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garvey started his dance lying on the ground as if he were asleep by the fire, then slowly awoke and sat up. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When you lie once, you have to make it uniform. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Mom came back, she put the coffee in the cupboard but left her mug on the counter and said she needed to lie down for a bit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Darin says my voice goes high when I lie, and Cook seems like the type to notice. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some ding-dongs believe me, though, and when that happens, I keep the lie going, spinning it until I run out of ideas: I backpacked through France, Germany, and Spain with my rich aunt from Barcelona. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I can swallow them right now, lie down on my bed, close my eyes, drift away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the note lying on top of my shoes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We waited, lying flat beyond the ditch along the main road while a German battalion passed, then when they were gone we crossed the road and went on to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I nod, pretty sure she’s lying to me, pretty sure she saw me and was hiding from me and that’s why she didn’t seem surprised to see me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I thought of Aunt Florentine lying downstairs in the refrigerated room. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some sick way I wish I could get caught so all this lying could be behind me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey wrapped that around his head and told him to lie down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sighed heavily, like Lauren lying about her intelligence was the biggest of her problems. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We lie there for a while, in no rush to begin the day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I tell you, son, around here, we’re not going to take this integration craziness lying down. Not us, not here, not ever.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She pretended to be mesmerized by the squashed cockroach lying on the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I cannot bring myself to do more than lie there and wait for it to ebb. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Alice was lying there, her blouse open where I had unbuttoned it, her face flushed, eyes wide in disbelief. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In his dream, Lucy was lying on a cot, holding a dripping orange Popsicle. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn wondered if he would dare answer her next question with anything but a lie. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it had been a lie to make the bird rally his energy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, but it was obvious I was lying when my voice broke. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Stick and I used to lie on our beds after lights-out and play the game together, making up elaborate lives and characters, before we got too old to make-believe. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a rumpled plaid suit, and his wispy hair had been finger-combed and wouldn’t lie down. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Kay and the liberated Dog Boy slept twitching beside him, looking alien and incomprehensible as people do when they are asleep, and Cavall, lying at his good shoulder, occasionally licked his hot cheeks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not exactly—because she had done too much lying of her own to mind about this. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I am embarrassed by the end-of-the-year-banquet lie my aunties have told to mask their generosity. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the two days since the accident, I’d thought about your notes a thousand times and tried at least that many times to push away the memory of your body lying in the street. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The lies that man’s been telling about this, they tell us he’s got to be hiding something, don’t you agree with that?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself lying flat on the floor, still and silent, listening to the sharp chirp of crickets in the field. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Chamber- lain strode back and forth, watching the Regiment form along the ridge in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could it have come to be lying in a forest pool, this close to the place where they were camping? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was lying in bed, smiling, and her many wrinkles could not hide the light in her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State William H. Seward was in that room, lying helpless in bed, defended by no one—Powell probably assumed—but a frail-looking girl. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s video, she’d know once and for all her dad lied. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

And then the stitch returns and I can’t help thinking of all I’m doing to be here— sneaking around behind my parents’ backs, for one, lying to them, for another. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The experience of being so coldly lied about at trial by someone you don’t even know was one of the most disquieting parts of the trial for Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’m glad we don’t have to start things off with a lie. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He takes one of the soccer balls lying in the yard and pancakes from one foot to the other. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I want to know what you mean, playing out of school and telling your grandmother lies and forging her name on your report and worrying her sick. What do you mean by it?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed in the fodder house all that day, lying on top of the com, listening to the drip of the rain, waiting for dark, when they would set out. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a lie in the sense that the facts were made up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And, I guess, she also knew that I would know that if she was lying, she had a reason for it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re lucky we didn’t know who you were when you were still lying under your bedroom furniture.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

After my shower I come back to her bed and lie there, watching TV like a princess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed, trapping the bunnies next to the wall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to lie down in the orchard and let it hold me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer may lie in the long struggle to get the copyrights back from Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always told people ‘no lie can live forever,’ and this has always been one big lie.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One man was lying on the path in front of us, dead and staring at the sky. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Keav approaches a nurse and reports her illness, the nurse takes her arm and leads her to a cot to lie down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lie, the nod, and Jinny knew it, but it happened all the same. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But a lie is a device for profit or escape. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d made a promise to the pastor and his wife, and because he had been lied to, his promise had not been kept. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They wrote notes in her chart saying, “30 year-old colored female lying quietly in no evident distress,” and “Patient feels quite well tonight. Morale is good and she is ready to go home.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s so peaceful and safe, lying in his arms and dreaming, it’s so thrilling to feel his cheek against mine, it’s so wonderful to know there’s someone waiting for me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my dear. How thoughtless of me! Here I go on and on . . .” “No. It’s all right. I think I’ll just go up and lie down, though, if you don’t mind.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He could smell witches by their evil thoughts, and it was useless to lie to him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to be lying on your back to see it—like Alex was now. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even after the death of his son, with the body lying there before him, the body of the boy he had loved so much, he spoke with dignity and firmness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Its left side, upon which it had lain in the coach, was swollen and dark with blood and fluids. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see the lie festering in your teeth.What do I see, boys? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I'm lying in a sand trap of my dad's golf course looking at the sky. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His digital wristwatch had lain in the water while he was unconscious and had filled and stopped—and it was supposed to be waterproof. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But it lies many miles away. Let us hasten!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hornet asked when they were all lying around her, waiting for their story. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one is on the comer, which is good, because I probably look pretty strange lying faceup on the sidewalk and inching myself under the mailbox. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later we three were lying back against the boat walls. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt she knew what a lying, murdering, hating person I really was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora closed her eyes, but a vision of the boy lying in bed, his head bandaged and the big man with the beard standing over him, forestalled her slumber. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Why all the lies? The superhero nickname, the fake year, made-up stories about sightseeing trips through time?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’d lie right down on the ground and it would calm me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great salesman, considering he’s blatantly lying about a bill in the clip. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Beyond there seemed to lie a wide chamber cut in the rock. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been lying to me all along,” I snap at him. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Has she been lying to me my whole life? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The man was lying down across it, moaning. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We each pulled a slice of pizza out of the box, and I said, “I think Morris is lying when he says that he doesn’t know what happened that Wednesday.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drop to the ground between the guards my father just shot and lie as still as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I found her lying on her bed, watching a Mel Gibson movie on a VCR she’d borrowed from the video department. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it was too strange to lie on a mattress, to have silk caress her skin and a pillow cradle her cheek. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor while everyone was getting free Cokes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We stumble across in the dark and as though he had been spat there every man lies glued behind a mound. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is a pity that our friends lie in between,’ said Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had lied about many things, but she’d never invented stories about a father. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I was done, Ms. Brown looked like she was lying in a rainforest. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘Does not the Black Gate lie yonder?’ said she. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Together they crept through the great vaults where the College’s Tokay and Canary, its Burgundy, its brantwijn were lying under the cobwebs of ages. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a slight nod, and I assumed I was free to make up my own lies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to lie back, as he did, and let the sun warm my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The answer lies somewhere between witchcraft and Western medicine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not lying when I say that Hollywood actresses would kill for my mother’s smile. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was lost; but he would not cringe; he would not lie, not in the presence of that white mountain looming behind him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Matt never knew, just before he opened the bathroom door, whether the dead man might be lying on the other side, staring up at the big light in the middle of the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To ignore this science is to engage in self-deception, to tell ourselves a lie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute they’re all lying on the floor, curled up, groaning and cursing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then she lifted the blanket and let her finger bleed on the sheets where they had lain together. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder exactly when it was that lying became so easy. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Where before the green dale had lain, its grassy slopes lapping the ever-mounting hills, there now a forest loomed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I ran over to Needles and almost backed away again—he was lying there in a spreading puddle of his own blood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spend the rest of the day lying low and avoiding Ainsley. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“If Lizzie was lying to me. If all she wanted to do was to get me on her side so she wouldn’t have to leave the island.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I could see she was about to make me lie back down, but the door opened just then, and Ms. Cope stuck her head in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I knew he was lying, but I also knew if I accused him, he’d deny it and there’d be a loud yelling match that wouldn’t do me any good. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘It came out of the mounds that lie on the borders of my country,’ said Pippin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, Zoe, talk to me. Why did you lie about going to the movies? Where were you going in a cab?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was in the tent, lying on one of the lower bunks beneath a heap of blankets. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or that she just ignored it and chose to live life in the lie instead. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I too crept away, my mind aswim in ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

To say “starving” was to speak a lie. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a line he crosses often, and sometimes lies and truth melt into something else. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Marian took classes in German and French, studied with a famous teacher of German lieder, and met many people in London’s close-knit music community. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Lies, lies, my father laughed, through your body runs the salt water of the oceans. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones’s gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He left only to soothe his burned lip in the cool river mud and make a meal of the small fish he found lying on the bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kelton has the kid lie on his back, and firmly holds his arm. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Either she’ll tell you a lie, and you still won’t know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Fiver was lying in a deep stupor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold spell had hit New Orleans, so that lying under the lamp that day was a comfortable experience. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paint rollers and brushes lie at their feet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But that would be two more lies to add to the pack. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Maire Solanya had shut her out of her father’s room, she had lain sleepless in her bed until the sun rose. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spun lazily in the warm breeze, tempting honest ration-buyers with glimpses of ripe, naked women lying in pools of fake blood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right,” I said, impressed at how easily Trevor lied to his mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We all lie in the belly of the Crepuscule and gaze into the darkness, awaiting sleep impatiently. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But he keeps studying me as I walk away, like maybe he knows I’m lying. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Hamlet did love me; he spoke and acted so. I did not lie.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Below them, Petra held tight to a low- lying branch with a precarious crack in it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I keep shaking my head, and I add a shrug, but I’d be lying if I told you that his excitement and invitation into one of them isn’t making me cringe. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Rebecca’s body lying there on the cabin floor,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, not wanting my voice to give away my lie. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now I couldn't write them for money without revealing that I had been lying about the job. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she hid and lied to me about the dry cleaner because she didn’t want me to freak out about her spying on me and invading my privacy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He said, “Well, we’ve heard so much about them hounds of his, we just think it’s a lot of talk and lies. We’d like to make a little bet; say about two dollars.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drags me to where the chain bolts lie, then releases me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the stories said the mate could sniff out lies like a bloodhound. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Most of them were lying on their backs with their enormous mouths wide open, and they were snoring like foghorns. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let us rise up and go out, back through the years, where the burden of all this misery lies on us no more, back to you and me alone, Mother! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sick kids everywhere— walking with IV poles, playing games, lying in beds, watching TV, sleeping. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lie sounded better this time, almost true. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I admit to lying right away, he’ll never trust me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The infection also left Roosevelt so weak that he couldn’t sit up, forcing him once again to lie down on top of the boxes in the canoe in an uncomfortable position. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why the popular phrase is truth or consequences, when it’s really more like lies and repercussions. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the agents spot them and lie in wait, it could spell doom for Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Magic lions are sent to kill delinquent debtors, and snakes the size of tractors can lie in wait for you in your fields. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Let us just reconstruct that little scene. You were lying in your bunk—so—and you could not see for yourself, you say?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A tiny bit of light came through the shower curtains and all from our room, and I could see him lying in bed. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One sock was lying beside her shoes and she discovered its mate on her foot. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then, because he thought anybody could have told he was lying, he added a normal-Finn line, “Is it breakfast time yet?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the alarm, of course, and I slam it once with my fist before throwing it against the wall, where it lies, bleating like a lost sheep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And even the ones I do have are probably all a lie. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was naked, lying as if in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags: his arm was flung up, shielding his head, and across his side there ran an ugly whip-weal. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My guess is that he’s lying to me. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he ever lie or worry that he was more bad than good? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hermione was lying on her bunk reading, while Ron, after many nervous glances up at her, had taken a small wooden wireless out of his rucksack and started to try and tune it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as I returned to Elsinore, I felt constrained to lie, to deceive the queen herself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In any case, my path lies east through the Serran Mountain Range. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had risked part of her fellowship money to sing before an audience that knew the words of most German lieder by heart, and she worried that few people would even bother to show up. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Garrett now lies face up and sprawled out on the boulder, looking to the hazy blue sky. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Would any man lie snug with a sea monster? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flashlight was at his side; the gun was lying beside the flashlight, the handle pointing toward him, so he could get it quickly and be in a position to use it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was tired and hungry and only wanted to lie down. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me talk to her first,” I lie to Supreme. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Limping and still stiff, and as perilously thin as Jack, Moniek quickly related how he had spent all this time lying in a far-off barracks, recovering from his injuries. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I realized things were going to get nasty was the first week in April, when Charlie broke our friendship off at the pagoda because he believed the lies Jenny Flick told him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Pretty thing, and such a bad liar. A dog can smell a lie, you know. Look around you, and take a good whiff. Tliey're all liars here . . . and every one better than you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had lain awake all night, imagining how he was going to beat the best barons in England, and he had not been able to eat his breakfast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scooped out a hollow and lying down piled the leaves over him like a thick coverlet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She told me that she lied,” she says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think the sailors knew you were listening? Don’t you think they’re up there right now laughing their heads off about that stupid boy who was eavesdropping and believed all their lies?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s lying! We didn’t drink nothing. Nothing. Guitar didn’t even get the glass of water he asked for.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But I agree. There’s no point upsetting Auntie Glo. You don’t have to lie, Ted. Just say nothing.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t even be surprised about your lying when I’ve been doing the same thing and setting a poor example. I never should’ve gone behind your parents’ backs. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Dodgers were playing a home game, and Cade and I were lying on the bed, drunk, in our underwear. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And if you tell somebody they’re lying all the time, they start to believe you a little. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I intended to lie there for a while and take stock of my life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered if, in New York City, the Ryans would still be awake in their gleaming apartment, what they would say if she lifted the phone and said to them, I lied. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My aunt gave it to me,” I said, disgusted that I had to lie and lie again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally forced herself to cough again, wondering if she dared lie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He’d arrived too late from Baltimore — when it was all over and she was lying on the hospital bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, upon considering, I concluded that she had looked like a mud baby, lying on the white satin of her velvet coffin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But first, come with me, before you make things worse. I have a place you can lie down.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked between his father and Koffi, who was still lying on the ground. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I saw the mother lying in bed in her long flowing robes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie goes to one of those competitive schools that are an hour away by subway, so he would have no way of knowing that you’re lying. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Also, people were outright lying, which was driven either by self- deception or survival. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were still three bodies lying in the square. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A dead dog was lying on a rubbish heap; a woman with a goitre was looking for lice in the hair of a small girl. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him out a side door, happy to leave Ivette and her lies behind me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was lying on the floor now, gasping in pain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to lie down with those words and rise up speaking a new language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was newly back from England, had been in Lagos for only a week, but Nneoma was already grumbling about how he could not just lie around in her flat reading and moping. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You do know what happened. You don’t have to lie to me anymore. You have Alzheimer’s.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

How could a worthless widow accuse a rich woman of lying? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a white lie,” Ms. Morales protested. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The idea that Carlyle is one of us troubles me, because what if he’s lying? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He lies flat on the ground, completely still. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It is a different sensation than watching the stars while lying in a field, something Bailey has done many times. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He told her about the stockyards with all the fenceposts gone, with roofs and windows gone—told her about seeing little logs lying around. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, too, I was expecting the boy who sat in front of me to devise some lie to save me, since it was really he who was guilty. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie back and laugh along with him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I lie. I love to lie. Lying makes me feel good. I’m addicted to it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words feel dirty, as dirty as a lie in his mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am trying to remember what Finch said about lies not being lies if they feel true. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to lie, I’m a little freaked out. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Why does a dog go round and round in a circle before it lies on its bed? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces paled with dread before Athena, and swords dropped from their hands unnerved, to lie strewing the ground, at the great voice of the goddess. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the hospital cafeteria-line serving woman sitting there on her day off with a cat fur around her neck, telling the proprietor she was a “dietitian”—both of them knowing she was lying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This “integration” image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them—and that’s a lie! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cart’s wheels is lying on the grassy edge of the road a few feet away. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I asked myself as I watched them lie shamelessly to the dirty old man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At first I see nothing but a stretch of farmland, a strip of empty ground, the fence, and the fields and beginnings of buildings that lie beyond it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Park’s body, lying on damp ground atop the bottom strand of wire, became that device. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If a golden paradise had ever lain to the north, it wasn’t there anymore. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dirty, cramped cell, I could lie on my cot and touch both walls. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m lying flat on my back, and I do my best not to look at him, or acknowledge him in any way. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"Lie, sir? Lie to him, lie to a trustee, sir? Me?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the heart to tell any of the new Jews it was all a pack of lies when the roll call was finished and we were sent to our new barracks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did he toe off his sneakers and lie down on the narrow bed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But his eye twitched just like Daddy’s did when he was lying. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will, you go lie down on the daybed in the hall.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘This is an evil door,’ said Halbarad, ‘and my death lies beyond it. I will dare to pass it nonetheless; but no horse will enter.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Now will you stop lying to me, boy,” he shook the truncheon in my face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My lies about my family were adequate, I suppose, but they could not stand up under these glaring attacks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they try to deny their limits, secular institutions only lie. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was tissue paper lying on the floor, and an old label. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel him waiting for something, anything, and I could feel my heart ripping open and I realized there was no point lying about this. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He felt immediately guilty for lying—even if it was just a little lie. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Huge tree branches lying on ripped-apart roofs, windows shattered, bikes and toys and trash scattered over lawns. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before the Klan, he had often lain in bed like this, wondering why he couldn’t seem to get anywhere in the world. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of those times for lying, were they?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Their chambers lie beyond this place, where the aqueduct’s water was diverted for the games. Once we have dealt with you...once you have helped us...the twins have promised we will never suffer again.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once again, the answer lies in the system’s design. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The kids left a bike lying in the street.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Becca was alone, lying on top of her covers, staring at the ceiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I can't do anything—not now. My poor nerves! No: we must just lie still a bit and then go back." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The treasure box, lying on a platform carried by four men, seemed to glow. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s a gigantic hole in the middle of it where Central Park used to be. As the island moves across the planet, it acts like a frame, displaying what lies beneath it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would lie always in its hollow like an enchanted thing, guarded by the woods, safe, secure, while the sea broke and ran and came again in the little shingle bays below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down on my back, stretch out my arms as wide as I can, and whisper, “Help.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you tell Maya how you flat-out lied to us?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then we’d take turns lying on our stomachs, watching the ants go back and forth picking up crumbs from sandwiches. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I try to get out of bed Monday morning, I’m so dizzy that I have to lie back down again. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was an envelope addressed to me and it was lying under my book in the shirt box with some other envelopes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Do a tragic tribute to the woman lying where we left her, with my arrow still in her heart. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It is a wonder that God in heaven did not drown out his lying voice with a thunderous ‘NO!’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They scowled, or shook and tapped their heads, they laughed as though they knew it was a lie and they appreciated a liar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ever forget your history,” she sang, “or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s Danuta’s anxious eyes that have me angry, or Max’s fear, or the man lying in the gutter behind this policeman’s feet, a man who may or may not be dead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, I thought of Sir Zurt, lying in his blanket of leaves, and fresh tears came. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I stared at the pipe that was lying there on the rocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot—how could he find perfection in such an average day? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all their neighbors, Maria’s family heated their house by burning wood, and she was gathering scraps that were lying around the yard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

All it got me was a mother who lied about what her stupid poet name meant. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What do you know? Our friend X-Ray wasn’t lying.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Soon we were lying in the sand, her salt-thick, tangled hair through my fingers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She misses their evening ritual, lying next to her daughter in bed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“If they had ever lain down,” someone said, “they would’ve frozen to death.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer off the side of the ship, pondering the depths, wondering what unknowable mysteries lie beneath us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then they’d lie back and gaze up at the darkening sky. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

How about: Art is the truth that tells a lie? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Linda was lying in the last of the long row of beds, next to the wall. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Lands will lie open to you eastward that have long been closed.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The second Anna learned from the first and claimed to love sunshine and detest lies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Some lie still while others crawl on their elbows trying to reach safety. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his first lie to his parents. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"They stuff us day after day and then just make us lie around. But I'm allowed out on walk hours now, so don't worry, I'll thin down in a couple of weeks." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“One lie. What you said about your friend was an untruth, but that’s it. Who you are is not a lie.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And in the surface of the pearl he saw Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot away. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was part of the play,” I lied. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made the children lie down on it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grace chose to believe Rafe anyway, as they sat together, lying in wait at the edge of the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She got to be so sincere in the deception that she ended up by consoling herself with her own lies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“All the lines end in ‘lie’ except for the one that ends in ‘story.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But let me tell you, my dad was lying. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He tells people to wait, so his spies can find out their secrets. Then he pretends the spirits told him everything. It’s all lies.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they see it as a contest between the defense and the prosecution as to who's lying, they'll vote for the prosecution. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could you please tell your wife to stop lying to the police about me? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why everyone around the pool is lying there listless. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Artemis, my sister is lying drugged on that couch. She was almost killed. So explain yourself now!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I raise myself slowly and reach forward with my arms, dragging my body after me and then lie on the edge of the shell-hole, half in and half out. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry opened his eyes and was dazzled by gold and green; he had no idea what had happened, he only knew that he was lying on what seemed to be leaves and twigs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The news spread like pox through black communities: doctors were doing research on black people, lying to them, and watching them die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was just an old tennis shoe lying on its side. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To all the things I have avoided out of fear of getting sicker, only to find myself lying here anyway, about to go into another surgery I might not come out of. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I think so: Only by drinking it can I empty the basin and see what lies in its depths.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Three a.m. would come and Maya would lie awake in bed and watch lights from the cars outside pass across her ceiling, lighting her room before it fell dark again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

How did Noah and I ever get so locked up in secrets and lies? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After a few hours of lying around and joking and making funny sounds she’ll get up and drift off to the other end of the apartment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no haphazard piles lying around as they did at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To himself, he says, “It’s all one big lie.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He lies on the cot, stares at the ceiling. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a lie, Harry,” said Hermione sharply over breakfast, when he told her and Ron what he had done. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All eyes turn on the exposed rice container, the lid lies crooked on top and slightly ajar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant he could murder me, because I couldn’t trust him, even though he had said “Trust me,” because he had told a lie about a big thing. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could simply lie to Falconer, assure him that I'd transcribed the entire performance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He turns out the light and lies down on the floor beside the chair, with just his arm for a pillow, and for a long time I can't tell whether he's asleep or pretending. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coach’s stare made him feel like he was hooked to a lie detector. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I see a gesture which jolts my mind completely back into place: before he lies down to sleep, he grabs at something around his neck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It felt lousy lying to her, but honestly we had no choice. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Just lie back there and breathe until she gets here.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He’s lying on the floor of the stable looking up the lane and there’s white stuff like milk around his mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Piles of matching blouses and skirts lie all over her bed. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Leave me lie!” protested the child as he was brought down the bank. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I'm lying there on the floor tied up when Iggy sneaks in through the back. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

My brain fumbled around for a good lie, but it was too tired; everything slipped out between its fingers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I said that we had told him lies, that was true. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember,” Francie went on, “how we did our examples on this hearthstone, and the time papa got us a real blackboard eraser and then the stone was like the blackboard in school, only lying down?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel bad about lying, but they aren’t supposed to know the Hideout exists. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I returned to the hotel room and found Sohrab lying on the bed, curled up in a big C. His eyes were closed but I couldn’t tell if he was sleeping. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed he would fall ill and die a terrible death for lying to me and betraying me and letting them break my body. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the children die immediately, but others lie in agony on the ground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. Marcus is not a good man. He lies and manipulates people. And he’s a convicted murderer. I don’t want him in your life. You have to understand.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

My dad must’ve spoken to Miss Joe, and together, they decided to sit me down—lie to me, get me to stop asking questions. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I believe him, Lord Nyame. He wouldn’t lie, not about this.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Buck, as was his custom, was lying in a corner, head on paws, watching his master’s every action. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the stories I had heard about the place were lies, things that never happened. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Always after those searches, the family would miss silverware, cigarettes, small change, cuff links, and earrings left lying about. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He rose clumsily and bowed in dwarf-fashion, saying: ‘Yet more fair is the living land of Lórien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Learn to control yourself, missy. I don’t have time to be changing your sheets all day. Next time you have an accident I’ll let you lie in it and you’ll see what’s good for you.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder how much money is lying around here. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Pima finally hauled Nailer up, groaning, her muscles flexing as she dragged him up like a dead pig, then left him lying on the carbon-fiber decking while she and Lucky Girl went below. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed thinking about those days when the streets smelled like smoke and ash, when the stores where we’d just bought candy were closed and all boarded up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I lie still with my eyes open, waiting for the best moment to crawl up to the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One night I was lying in my bed in Mrs. Virgilio's house, reading, when I glanced up from the book to the ceiling. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He dashed toward the kitchen, dodging both Emma’s backpack and the family’s cat, Rocket, lying in the middle of the floor. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I lied to you,” she told Redemption. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I could steal from a hundred stories and tell you a lie so familiar you would swallow it whole. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The British boys were taking long, sweeping strokes, all but lying on their backs at the end of each pull. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Much of the crowd was sitting or lying on the sidewalk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I saw his glove lying in the path thirty yards back and went to retrieve it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I felt heavy lying in bed instead of floating free as I had been doing for the past week. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his bunk, pants zipped up, smiling, looking smug. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about lying in that hole while Andrius lay in a bed, a Soviet bed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Sheep Sheep looked up at the lights of the plane cabin, lying on a cold tray table, it must have felt like an emergency clinic in Dubai. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was extremely comfortable, lying there in bed and listening to the storm raging outside. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would have to stay there, then, lie on the floor beside his bed, night after night, until Mrs Boland came to clean and took it away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But instead of teeth and claws he only felt something warm lying down at his feet. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stayed up late, twisting my hair into knots as I tried to wrest meaning from the textbook, then lying in bed and brooding over my notes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her mother was lying just as Stella had left her, but she was trembling now. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To this I assented; and he requested a boy fetch me a fiddle lain in another room. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I say, “Funny thing. Isn’t it? Because that was no lie.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At the moment he was lying right there on the carpet, and no one who knew about his condition would've seriously demanded that he let the manager in. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell the truth about how I went out to my land this morning, or I can lie about it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was oddly frightening to lie on the ground without a shelter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and find that I'm not, in fact, lying on a fair netherworld plain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The hoopskirt of my favorite dress kept popping back up like a child who refuses to lie down. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Cumberland Plateau, lies a small town called Harlan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now, when the only alternative is to starve, I fight others for a dead animal lying in the road. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This movie was about a guy who wakes up one morning and can't tell any lies. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He saw Graham lying motionless on the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the man left, we got the scolding of our lives, not just for throwing rocks in the man’s pool, but also for lying about it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You know me better than to lie, you old toad.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In third grade, he’d lied about finishing his take-home reading, and the next day his mom had landed in the hospital with appendicitis. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What if she’s lying? You think she’s going to hand over all her money because we ask her nicely? She needs to be convinced.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for clutter—the boy had nothing, so he couldn’t possibly leave it lying around. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I'm lying awake in the dark on a hot summer night and I'm thinking, Treasure in the sewer? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You were right. I feel better,” I lied. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be lying on the floor beside the witness box, his arms outstretched. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We just lie there looking up at the half-moon until it’s time for me to walk her home. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my eye caught sight of something lying outside a Target. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Yet I like hearing adults murmuring, feeling the sun through the window, lying on my tummy on a soft carpet, worrying only about jumping checkers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan is lying in bed nursing her bruised rib. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But thinking of Tariq was treacherous because, before she could stop, she saw him lying on a bed, far from home, tubes piercing his burned body. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No. You kept a piece of the one Carter killed. I can’t believe you. You lied to me. To me!” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I came to Renfield’s room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now he’s lying flat on his back, knees bent, hands laced behind his head. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lie there in the whiteness of that room and let my thoughts do the walking. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Armpit was lying there, his eyes closed, only half listening, when he suddenly heard her sing: These shoes, these jewels, this dress, A perfect picture of success. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Stones of Seeing do not lie, and not even the Lord of Barad-dûr can make them do so. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I still go into my brother’s room and lie around on the floor reading comic books, but I never do this when any no* other girl is there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I have is my instinct, which tells me that in this matter, at least, Cain wasn’t lying. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was lying on a stretch of turf with a cloak thrown over him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you forsake the parrot and all his lies?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I already told you, they lied when I asked about my name. They’ll probably deny the rest of it, too.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Riddle had frozen, his face expressionless, but his eyes were flickering back and forth between each of Dumbledore’s, as though trying to catch one of them lying. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He nods numbly, closes his eyes, and is asleep before he has even lain down again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I thought it was wonderful,” he lied and looked away; the sight of her transfigured face was at once an accusation and an ironical reminder of his own separateness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can get blankets and lie in the back of my truck and read with flashlights. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I had so much to ask her, “Do you like to lie on your stomach and look for things under the ice?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I want to run madly for the door and demand to be released into whatever lies above. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“They’re visiting from the SkyWay complex down in Hartford,” he lied kindly, as if we were other rich kids here in the foyer waiting for our rich aunt. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I’m going to live with my mother because Father killed Wellington and he lied and I’m frightened of being in the house with him.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boys and I lie on the kitchen floor and stare at the ceiling for a while longer, until I realize, with some embarrassment, that they have both fallen asleep. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He was lying on the bed, listening to his Walkman. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t really a lie, but then I added, “I’m sorry.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I know you blacks. You leave the country and start telling Americans lies about how bad things are here. Is apartheid a bad system, boy?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I lie awake, thinking of what I’ll do when I get home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ma and me would lie on her bed and she would start reading out loud from one of her mystery hooks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He goes as far as the sycamore tree, lies down in the wet grass, head on his paws. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In these woods and cottages there are no envious eyes, no carping tongues, no gossip or lies,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I could see the necklace lying on the rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ask Jennica. She told it to the cops. You know she wouldn't lie." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the time the principal steps up to the podium to begin the awards ceremony, my entire face has flamed red from my lies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess I’m not lying to save you from getting caught or receiving punishment,” she thought out loud. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Anna’s alligator purse, which she had taken to Mollie’s luncheon, was now lying on the floor, the servant said, with “everything torn out of it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a while, Pollux and I click around on the Holo, seeing what traps lie where. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo,” said Ron, looking down at his bare chest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He knew only that he was lying here with a gun in his hand, surrounded by men who wanted to kill him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she came back to the little house to lie down before she went over to the café to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I got up from where I was lying and sat on the edge of the open tailgate of the truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He'd been lying to everyone, including his little son, for a long time. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I pretended to sleep, lying very still but keeping my eyes open. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lyra stopped and turned to see a man lying on the snow, with a gray-feathered arrow in his back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, why lie to a person you know knows the truth? Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph was lying on his stomach with his head buried in his arms. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“She actually did. I told her you convinced me to go. She said that you sound like a smart girl. She ain’t lying about that.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And he did nothing except lie awake in the dark, thinking of her body there in the funeral home, not her anymore, but a thing suddenly, cold and pale. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You lied to me, Captain. You’re not running hot at all, are you?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I study the ease of the fabric, how some skirts swing like a bell and some lie stiff and barely move at all. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to lie to make me feel better.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually he pulled his pillow and blanket to the floor, lying on his stomach and watching the stillness of the late night. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The board was cracked and the tiny wooden dice were so ill-cut that they would hardly lie on their sides. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The explanation of this peculiar behavior sometimes appears to lie in the changes which the chemical brings about in the metabolism of the plant itself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I saw the animal, lying on its side with its back against the tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I did hear about the... marching... event,” I lie. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“All right,” he says in Quichua, but then neither of us can think of anything to say, so finally he says, “Good night, Daughter,” and lies down in his bed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think she’s lying, to me and to herself, about why she owns these objects. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was an uprooted and dead mesquite tree, lying on the back of the wash. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They tell you a lot of lies in the Children’s League, the biggest being that you’re free,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t lie about it—not at first. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I lied, knowing it to be a reasonable price. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slip on yesterday’s jeans and hijab, both lying at the foot of the bed, and I’m ready, except for my teeth. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A sleeping young woman is propped up on silk pillows stuffed with feathers; a quilted blanket laced with thick gold ribbons lies over her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She thought I was dead and that some impostor was trying to pull a cruel joke, or that Goi and Aleer were lying to her to make her feel better. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into order: the chain that had been lying hitherto a formless lump of links was drawn out straight,—every ring was perfect, the connection complete. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Evan was lying on a blanket next to his brother, gnawing on a rubber giraffe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had tole her a little bit of a lie. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But I decided not to tell her I knew she was lying, because by then she was already cutting up the cardboard box, and I sort of wanted to find out why. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were lying in their bed under a pile of thin blankets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her lying partway on the bed, partway on the floor, tangled in her sheets, her eyes open but not blinking. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially with Faith lying beside me in that bed, lost in a tangle of long dark hair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She could always tell when Mo was lying, however hard he tried to hide it from her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just as if I’d rammed him with a car, I was consumed by the knowledge that a stranger was lying in a hospital bed because of me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When the sun went down I was still lying there, seeing only walls of wood and the open sky, blue-gray as a pool. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get why you felt the need to lie to me,” Drew said as Erin pulled her car keys out of her coat pocket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When Aravis came to herself she found that she was lying on her face on a low bed of extraordinary softness in a cool, bare room with walls of undressed stone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the couch and wonder if Uhmma can smell the lie in the flowers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Capricorn left the bloodstained fabric lying over the arm of his chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw them, a handful of kids scattered around the library on rugs, lying in pairs or off in a corner by themselves on a mat, piles of books beside them. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wraps a towel around the radio and lies under the bed listening to illegal stations. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, sir. If it wasn’t for my mother’s going, I’d stay right here and work,” I lied as earnestly as possible. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, for the first time since he had lain down, Zooey, with his eyes still shut, compressed his lips—very much, as a matter of parenthetical fact, in the habitual style of his mother. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The first lie I told was about the lost compass that wasn’t really lost. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also interrogated them separately to compare stories and sift through the lies to find the truth. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to recall the anger, the disappointment he had felt when he had first discovered that Scipio had lied to them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A lie. I know you. You are that blind beggar girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I plan for us to skirt around the corner and then detonate the Meat Grinder, but another unmarked pod lies in wait. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Part of me was angry at Liz for lying, part of me wanted her to come back, and the other part just wanted the magic square book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo was still fast asleep, lying now stretched on his side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On the bottoms lie the incredible refuse of the sea, shells broken and chipped and bits of skeleton, claws, the whole sea bottom a fantastic cemetery on which the living scamper and scramble. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I select each passenger in turn, consider their evidence and say to myself, ‘If so and so is lying, on what point are they lying and what is the reason for the lie?’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his side, trying in vain to get up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lie burns my throat on the way out, or maybe that’s the tears I’m fighting. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At first I meant to stretch the truth, but then I out-and-out lied to my sisters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a piece of paper lying there, face down. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe Matthias was lying, or all this stuff about Black Protocol is a fake to keep people from even trying to open the gates. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Below, the captain and his crew glanced longingly back at their pretty rocket ship lying on the hillside, so sweet and lovely and fine. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petersburg lies on an island; the Devils Thumb is on the main-land, rising from a frozen bald known as the Stikine Ice Cap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They peel back the covers and lie together, sticky and spent, in each other’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hers was no daydream lying, when the thing imagined is told and, to make it seem more real, told as real. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You got my word,” I say, which, considering all the lying I’d been doing lately, didn’t seem like it amounted to much. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I lie on my cot and whisper it oh so slowly into the darkness. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was vague in the head from lying in the hay. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

To tell the interviewer that I knew the woman was lying seemed worse than translating what the woman said as accurately as I could and letting the interviewer figure it out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just like that, he lets him go, straightens, picks Roamer up, and drops him onto the bank, where he lies coughing up water. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When not lying under the lamp, I walked the streets of New Orleans to orient myself. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a number on the website. I just gave them her name,” I lie. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I was finished I couldn’t believe what a perfect lie Diego came up with. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She could lie in her cot and tell the time of day by the angle of sunlight pouring through the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned around and went over to the pile of straw lying on the floor in a corner of the room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When everything was in place, they made Yossarian get back into bed and lie down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She closes her eyes and lies down next to me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I could tell by her voice that she was already lying down, and had the phone lying on the side of her face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I ended up just lying in bed and replaying the whole picnic with Augustus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at him with a resurgence of faith in a pub- lie figure. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t never heard him. When I was home he weren’t doing nothing but chasing after women and lying in the ditches, drunk.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That I could, myself, lie down in one and be reborn. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not true,” Axel says, not wanting to feel the scowl on George’s face but not wanting to lie to him either. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘I never lie to you, child,’ she answered. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? Are you planning to hide more lies from me?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m lying on my stomach with a diaper on, looking up with this toothless grin, probably already thinking what I’m going to do when I get my first football helmet. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He moved his own fins anti-clockwise, gave the tip of his tail a cunning flick, and was lying alongside the tench. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I'd stake my soul on it. My son . . . you love your children, don't you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There just might be some of Cluny’s rats lying in ambush for any creature that ventured into the shadowy fringes of Mossflower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He felt that he couldn’t lie if asked a direct question, and yet if he simply refused to answer, the assumption was that he was hiding something crucial. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped Rosaleen some in the kitchen, but mostly I was free to lie around and write in my notebook. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, shining white on the back of his cold hand, were the scars which Dolores Umbridge had forced him to carve into his own flesh: I must not tell lies. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the drive home, Papi keeps forgetting to slow down for the lying policemen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know that she lies,” I said, putting the pizza into the microwave. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The glow around Faith is ten times as vibrant as it was the first time, and the last vestige of guilt caused by lying to my parents leaves me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her hands lie open on the pale blue blanket, palms up, fingers slightly curled. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about going to lie down on the futon in the spare room, but he hates to wake and find me gone, it always leads to a row' about something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my father’s,” Harry lied, hoping against hope that it was too dark for Greyback to see the name etched just below the hilt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As I stooped to do so, I saw something dark lying on the front room floor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lied and told her momma and daddy she was hanging with some other friends today. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“No, my cousin would never lie to me. He said a man named Willie Bodega would help me. I have to find him.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he was not nec­essarily sleeping. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is still too early to expect this, and it may lie just ahead. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the lie I’m thinking of. It might infect everything. If they ever found out you’d lied to them about this, the true things would suffer. They wouldn’t believe anything then.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of them, lying against the side of the mountain, Sophie could see a massive round stone. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boy21 pulls the blinds and turns off the lights so that his stars glow a weird green, and then he presses Play on his CD player and lies down between us. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To worship and request help from Durga, the most important goddess, you lie down and face a three- cornered fire pot. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If undetected, it can lie dormant in the human body for years before erupting in a positive fiesta of maladies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The line plays over and over in my head as we move from standing to lying down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They have an encyclopedic understanding of their opponents: how they like to race, when they are likely to start sprinting, when they like to lie in wait. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, she didn't want Jazz to see her lying, even though something told me that Jazz already knew about calling out sick, and how most people aren't really sick. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I read about some photographers in an underground paper. They take pictures of the occupation. They document it, so when the war is over, the Germans can’t lie about what they did here.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Me: I’m lying here wishing I could count us backward to yesterday morning. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He left critical forms lying on the floor for days. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to make your peace with the chaos, but you cannot lie. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Was it a lie? Or was it a game?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“And rather than say she was kidding or whatever, she exploded in front of everyone in the caf and said I did say that and that I was lying about never saying it.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Next to her, Kim lies on the ground, using his backpack as a pillow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back to their bench, she saw that it had a new tenant, a man who had lain on the sodden grass. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“In the twilight, that is the time for lies. I do not tell good lies, so I am a poor fortune-teller. And our sister, Zorya Polunochnaya, she can tell no lies at all.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I move closer to the window and see a small wooden crate lying a few feet away from him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Old Grandma told him while he was still sick and weak, lying in the darkened room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if she's lying in bed and she sees a creepy guy face pressed against the glass? Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The knoll where they were lying gave them a wide prospect across the countryside. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Through the crack, I can make out the silhouette of a woman lying motionless in an all-white bed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Alice was lying on her back, rubbing her head frantically against the ground, moaning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was buried on the spot and lies there yet, but about a yard closer to North America than on the day he died. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That is, she lied to him to make him feel better, but sometimes she thought about how ridiculous some of her lies were, and she wondered if she should stop. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I told him about the glass I had seen lying broken in the fireplace at the twins’ apartment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frank, Bill and Lillian, lying flat on the parlor floor and peeking through the doors, bore witness to the proposal and to Anne’s none-too-original rejection. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only vaguely aware of the leaves and branches twisting around him, softening and widening to let him lie back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was no room to lie down, so I sat back against the wall and closed my eyes. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she says that you asked her to step out, she lies?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And suddenly he saw that he was in the picture that was revealed to him in the mirror of Galadriel in Lórien: Frodo with a pale face lying fast asleep under a great dark cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The pending period is sort of like a safe zone, but the fear and anxiety lie in your application getting denied. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jones was not one to lie down paralyzed by the specter of danger. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s standing at the edge of the sidewalk with his wife, Minnie, looking at a dog lying in the gutter.There is blood all around the dog’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I saw a whole family, a father and mother and three children, lying on the road to the motor park. Just lying there.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She kept picturing Archer lying on the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Linda was lying on the bed, sipping that horrible stinking mescal out of a cup. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hare replied with a lie, but continued to sing about the doings of the clever hare, who was no longer thirsty and had clean fur. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood ran slowly down, joining the rain puddles still lying on the steps. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And this makes it okay to tell lies about your best friend how?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I have him in a cage for all the north to see, proof of your lies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tore up some of Adah’s pictures and I lied to Mama four times and I tried to see Nelson naked. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meteoriticist Jack Hartung has pointed out that a very recent, very fresh-looking small crater with a prominent ray system lies exactly in the region of the Moon referred to by the Canterbury monks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank stared miserably at Hazel’s cavalry sword, lying at his feet next to his backpack. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was lying on Tom Warrups’ frame bed on his stomach, with a deerskin rug over him. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gaze past all of this at the ground itself, which is now slick and damp, and imagine myself lying there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We lie there gasping, twitching, our minds and bodies invaded by the poison. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could he think she was lying to him? The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There, well before sunset, Kehaar, flying westward down the Belt, spotted the rabbits lying up, all among the nettles and goose grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking through an opening on the south side of the flet Frodo saw all the valley of the Silverlode lying like a sea of fallow gold tossing gently in the breeze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few minutes lying here to remember it’s grand jury day. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jon’s work table is an arsenal, there are little saws lying around, little chisels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I realize Pop’s talking means more pain, I lie. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered that he had seen two bricks lying on the floor of the room as he had entered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me who sent you. And if you lie to me, I’ll know.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A white censor was standing over me and, like dreams forming a curtain for the safety of sleep, so did my lies form a screen of safety for my living moments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One part of his consciousness knew that he was still lying there, on the bed, in the Annex room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

As real as the person who would be lying in the bed next to him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him there was nothing left for a lie to protect. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to think of a way to explain what we were doing in a cab, but I couldn’t think of a single good lie. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It shone upon the nightdress case, lying on the pillow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A map of the Congo lies on the mahogany table between them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was lying right by the door,” the officer said. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of those favorite activities were lies but one of them was the truth. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

One year later, when Shipton returned to Everest, his expedition came across Wilson’s frozen body lying in the snow at the foot of the North Col. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You lie to me. You imprison me here with your lies!” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You're all right," I tell him, though I'm sure it's a lie. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I steadied my gaze and, because I was such a good liar, because I had so much practice lying, it was easy to tell her, “I’m sure. Just stay in the car.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Nor was the willingness of black men to lie in the beds of white women a consideration that might lead them toward tolerance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Unpleasant though it is to contemplate, we must assume deprivation and death lie in wait.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was actually a stomach bug going around, so it was a good lie. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Indeed, they became a nuisance around our camp by grabbing any food that we accidentally left lying on the table. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen different pieces lie across the surface, and he holds up a sharp needle attached to a glass vial. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Reich has also passed a new law, the Extraordinary Radio Law, intended to protect the Fatherland from lies and other enemy propaganda. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re—” I start, thinking about the crumpled note now lying in the library trash can. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We shall picture the man in question as lying ill in bed, if we know his person. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her little body was lying across a busted-down doll carriage in the cellar of a nearby house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody's lying here. I don't know how that hotel got my name and credit card.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time I’ve ever lied about something like that to a teacher. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Someone had lain down on top of me, smothering me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard the truck come back and Joe and Daddy came in, she couldn’t bear just lying still, so she rushed downstairs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well. Maybe Miss Walter didn’t tell her them lies Miss Hilly started. You never know.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When they had beds, they usually slept two or more on a twin mattress, lying head to foot, forced to crawl across a sea of sleeping bodies to reach their beds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was enough snow over my outstretched arm that I could tell I’d been lying there for a few minutes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Though you did lie about not having a master," he reprimanded me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were lying under a beech tree in the Forest Sauvage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it had probably just slipped off a chair, but it still bothered me to see it lying on the floor like that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I felt bad for the guy, but I’m not gonna lie, I was more worried it was gonna get us in trouble. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed feeling easier, like I can catch my breath. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The impossibility of that idea, more than any, is why Snow must be lying. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Caleb told us he left Erudite when he found out what they were planning—was he lying? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, the Magic 8 Ball lies on my bed, right where I left it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“No. Okay, wait. That’s a lie. I played the recorder in fifth grade.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There was also a great rectangular stone lying on its side near the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d never talked to a teacher like this before, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised I was getting away with it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two dead bodies are lying in the middle of the street. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And the second I say it, I realize that if she does, she’s going to see her two dead sons lying in front of the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the first sign that the flow of milk was slackening, they collapsed in exhaustion, not worried about lying in milk because their clothes and hair were already drenched. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But his result was genuine and mine was a lie. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I won't lie to you, it's grievous news. I never thought to see another king, not at my age, with Robert half my years and strong as a bull." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After my fiasco last night, I think they killed her for no reason other than to scare me into confessing that I have lied to them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No, not like, it was a big lie waiting for me to find out and this is the real life now, running without safety or answer, only moving, only ever moving. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, caught by the level beams, Frodo saw the old king’s head: it was lying rolled away by the roadside. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn’t have to live with this lie anymore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you’re right. He didn’t sound like he was lying.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Damasio studied patients with damage to a small but critical part of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which lies behind the nose. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"Let's sleep," she whispers into my ear, and I nod, and we break apart and lie down again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was not about to take Lawrence’s challenge lying down. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m the worst housekeeper I’ve ever seen,” she declared, and that was no lie. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, of course, they would, when he was lying in bed or sitting in the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I shift over to lie down, and then I pull him down with me—chest to chest, limbs in a tangle. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She gets up late, paints her nails, lies in the sun, and stares at pictures of African landscapes in a big coffee-table book. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I thought it was pointless, and the mats we were lying on smelled like a hundred sweaty armpits. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sansa could not think why Mother would want to lie about it, so she supposed it had to be true. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He lies,” snarled Bate, backing toward his gun on the sink drain board. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was tired, but lying down to sleep wouldn’t help. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But then shortly after his wedding one morning he was found lying dead across his bed—they said with twenty-five thousand dollars in his pockets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled down the shades, and he knew she was staring at him, almost as if she could see the outline of his lie in the dim light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to hear if she told any more lies. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Still lying on the floor, Candice ran her fingers along the thin, battered aluminum bracelet circling her wrist. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m lying on my bedroll, curled up and facing the wall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rondell looked at me, and I wondered if he was smart enough to know if I was lying or not. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"My lord, you wrong me. Would I bring lies to king and council?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The house had lain pretty much fallow since my father died. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, I’m not mad at you,” I lie. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was lying on my blanket on the floor, when I heard a tapping at the window. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up slowly, cautiously, found that it didn’t hurt any more to stand than it did to lie down. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Straight as a stick, thin as a lie, and tangled as a spider’s web!” she’d say. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes locked in recognition; in an instant, the doctor knew the identity of the man who was lying in front of him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat was lying on the shelf with his tail drooping over the edge, and Chester himself was relaxing in the matchbox. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now a passenger lies dead in his berth—stabbed.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

My coat was lying on the ground nearby. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes remained on Gaily, lying there, still; Thomas could feel the hatred pouring out, as if a visible line of flame connected them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The Wart did not know in the least what branch he stooped from, but he dared not be found out now in his lie. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cross lies on its side, white paint faded gray from the Indiana weather, and I wonder who put it there—Violet? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They envisioned thousands of black brothers converging together upon Washington—to lie down in the streets, on airport runways, on government lawns— demanding of the Congress and the White House some concrete civil rights action. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain has several books lying open on the library table in front of him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We lie down on Jenna’s bed, and she changes the subject. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Oh Lord, if only Malaga Island hadn’t all been a lie. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was facing the stern, lying flat on his stomach. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I know it’s a lie that I’m telling myself. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You always tell me the most beautiful lies,” she said, looking away from me and down to her hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was shocked: the recruiter had lied to her. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Before the maitre d’ could speak he noticed the prone body of Colonel Mullinax lying on the long dining table in the center of the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so. You are Arya of House Stark, who bites her lip and cannot tell a lie.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like lying to his parents but he was too worn out to explain the real reason that he had run so far. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were lying in their beds and when that corner fell off they fell out the building. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The images of Fred, Lupin, and Tonks lying dead in the Great Hall forced their way back into his mind’s eye, and for a moment he could hardly breathe: Death was impatient.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lake as big as the desert behind Lita’s house lies less than thirty meters in front of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I won’t lie: It feels good, just this once, to know that my words have pinched her hard for a change. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou’s cousin Ben was lying on her bed, staring at me with his black, black eyes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tilted her head back and forth, as if caught in a white lie. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want to do is lie down on the ground in front of the dog—making its teeth level with my face—but it’s the best option I have. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were all of people—some sitting up, some standing, some lying down. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Booth lies back and lets him, even though he knows he will no longer be able to slip his left foot into a stirrup. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My father made it before he died,” Hugo lied. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

If she could articulate it, she might have said to Nana that she was tired of being an instrument, of being lied to, laid claim to, used. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Had she lain in her bed listening to T. Ray snore, reciting it while she fell asleep, wishing to God she could run away with Robert Frost? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps me clean, and when the floor is tidy, the cloths rinsed out, and I’m dry from the rain, we lie down on the bed and wait for the Gestapo to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One day, Florida picked up a ten-dollar bill that was lying on the kitchen counter. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I do not like being lied to, my lord. Leave me out of your next deception." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The meal was still lying untouched on the bedside table when there came a knock at the front door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Not long after the Crowell house bombing, another close neighbor, Mrs. Ryles, came home from teaching school one day and saw a mysterious brown paper bag lying in the bushes by her front porch. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I was lying in bed and the bulb fell out of the ceiling and went up my booty," he whimpered. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s just that in the past, his lies tended to suit me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was engrossed in the images on the screen, lying on the floor next to Obiora. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The viola is kept in the coat closet, and Cordelia takes it out and shows it to us, lying there mysterious and important in its velvet-lined case. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between Tony and my mom, I’m doing a lot of lying today. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There are freshmen battling with shepherds’ crooks from the prop table, which—I’m not going to lie—look exactly like the old-timey hooks from Simon’s nightmares. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They are using me to cloak their deception, putting mine own face on their lie. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And don’t lie and say it wasn’t Dub. Rich saw him in the parking lot.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am lying and I don’t even care. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward we lie on top of his sleeping bag, eating potato chips out of the bag and giggling about nothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing to do was to focus on the hunt and not on her parents or the lies she was telling them with her silence. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I press myself down on the earth, I cannot go forward, I make up my mind to stay lying there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No idea,” Harry lied, putting on a spurt of speed that took him as far away as possible from Colin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was not good at lying to begin with, and he hadn’t practiced. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got him to lie down again, remade the bed and put some extra blankets on it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once I was sure she wasn’t going to hit me with a eucalyptus stick as punishment, I smiled inside, because that rotten, lying thief Alfonso and his wife got what they deserved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our Company lie between the fevered and the crew. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When we’re two blocks away, I say, “I lied to you.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I slid down the porch stairs and scooped up the basketball lying at my feet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would have to lie low in this stinking ditch until darkness fell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She’d know Hazel had lied to her, betrayed her, that her little girl had crossed a line. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She’d ask me what was wrong, and I wouldn’t be able to lie, not convincingly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Where the necklace had lain, his skin was powdery red and white. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He will not even try and fight his fate. He says the greendreams do not lie.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The beds lie unmade and the bathrooms have a damp, mildewy smell. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

His face looked up to the sky as lie screamed, “I didn’t touch her.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I told Betsy how I had been lying in bed that morning planning to go to the fur show. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He drew in a silent breath to quell the small nudge of anxiety that was rising within him; so far he had not been forced to lie. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Jake said a quick “Hi!” to Oliver, the store’s cat, who was lying on his fuzzy blanket underneath the produce rack while scratching at his neck and jingling his collar. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm a day laborer . . ." ". . . A day laborer, you heard him, but look at his stuff strewn like chitterlings in the snow . . . Where has all his labor gone? Is he lying?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did not lie, because he was scared that he would fail at lying and would eventually have to tell her the truth and that way make it all doubly damaging. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I shoved my hands into the pockets of my jeans so that I was lying on my arms, all of me one long mass. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The shame Shin feels about the executions has been compounded over the years by the lies he began telling in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To touch his lips with her fingertips and to relax into being Immie and to let the lies build up on each other. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I resolve to lie on the bed without eating, drinking, or taking my medications. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Papa sits at the table with a rag, polishing all of our silver, which lies in neat piles around him. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I almost tell him I don’t know, but I refuse to lie. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The largest Torres Strait island lies only 10 miles from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I wondered why I was saying it, boasting, maybe lying. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His hair lies smooth against his head, shiny and dark, like we didn’t just run for a mile at full speed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aru, on the other hand, was lying upside down on the couch and pelting pieces of popcorn at her, trying to get her attention. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But then Victor had always been good at lying, even when he was little. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to lie on a table on my back with my feet planted down and lift my hips and make a bridge with my body. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My sister looked around and saw everybody casting glances at my dad, lying on his throne. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And he wasn’t a King Lord. Khalil turned King down, and King’s been lying to save face.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Their hooded eyes swept over the place where their hope had lain since 1927. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m lying down on the prayer mat, my hair spread out like a fan under me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Crazy, lying, out for the reward. I don’t know what to say. He always seemed sane enough, though he did drag me off in a corner once and start talking about Christ’s kingdom on earth.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don't care whether he lies or tells the truth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She hoped Nico was still alive, and Gaea had just been lying to make her unsettled. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"It was just a lie," he said bitterly, remembering the crow from his dream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Their crime was bad enough, but the lies proved an evil that not even the whip could remove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And to have all my words lying out in the open, complete strangers able to walk by and see everything that mattered to me, without even knowing my name. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alternative was horrifying, especially after spending time with her that after-noon, seeing how awesome she was with the kids in the hospital: Nicole was lying. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

On the thirteenth of that month Farmer Cotton found Frodo lying on his bed; he was clutching a white gem that hung on a chain about his neck and he seemed half in a dream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I catch up to her, she’s lying supine, propped up on her elbows. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And Odysseus looked around him, narrow-eyed, for any others who had lain hidden while death’s black fury passed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let us hope that the fire now lies between us and pursuit. Come! There is no time to lose.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z