Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are …

Anita Shreve
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Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost. ✨ Anita Shreve (1999). Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost. ✨ Anita Shreve (1999). Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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