The Little Liar

by Mitch Albom

But here is the funny thing about truth: the less real something seems, the more people want to believe it.

“People say many things. Some are true. Some are lies. Sometimes, if you say a lie long enough, people believe it’s the truth.

He likes the clarity of combat, and its chosen truths, for all truths in war are chosen.

As the clock strikes ten in the morning, he makes a decision. Like many decisions that change a life, it comes silently, without fanfare.

Did Adam not lose paradise with a single bite of an apple? Was Lucifer not a good angel before his eternal expulsion? We are all one fateful act from a redirected destiny, and the price we pay can be immeasurable.

Only the dead see the end of war.

When it comes to lies, governments can outlast anyone.

But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark.