How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"But we're not looking for a lie now, are we?" "No, we're looking for the truth. Don't be afraid of it, darling. I'm not." (12.187-188)
Bourne and Marie are looking for the truth, maybe—but looking for the truth also involves looking for lies, since Bourne is an identity largely built out of deceit. Moreover, it's the lies that make the search fun. If anonymous dude were just some boring non-lying regular Joe, we wouldn't have much of a book. So you could say the novel itself is, in some ways, actually afraid of the truth—or at least afraid of revealing it too soon, before the narrative has been spun out to manuscript length.
Quote #5
"I'm a chameleon, designed to fit a flexible mold." (14.36)
Bourne's called a "chameleon" because that sounds cooler and sexier than just calling him a liar. Is there a difference between being a "chameleon" and being a "liar"?
Quote #6
He was convinced the woman who walking beside him was the carrier of lethal commands that had been aborted by gunfire an hour ago, the order having been issued by a faceless man who demanded obedience or death. Yet there was not the slightest indication that a strand of her perfectly groomed hair had been disturbed by nervous fingers, no pallor on the chiseled mask that might be taken for fear. (14.106)
Jacqueline Lavier, the owner of the fashion house Les Classiques, is quite a liar herself. While Bourne's lying makes him awesome, and Carlos's lying makes him appealingly sinister, Lavier's lying makes her ugly: her face is referred to as a mask. Similarly, Madame Villiers's deception makes her a "whore" later on. In the novel, male liars are exciting and cool, but female liars are reviled. Is there any difference between the kinds of lies these people tell? If not, what accounts for the differing treatment of male and female liars?