“So it should be acceptable?” “That’s not what I said. Most lies are told to protect a part of the person lying. To protect the ego, the image, the pain, the shame.” The last word confuses me. “The shame?” “Oh, yes. The shame most of all. We tend to protect our feelings of shame, because we abhor it and never want to show it to others. So we cover it up, we create stories around it. Lies, fibs, half-truths, call it whatever you want. At the end of the day, they are stories.”
