Never Lie

by Freida McFadden

My mother always said not to leave the house in shoes you can’t walk a mile in.

Statistically, the risk of such a thing is low. Less than a quarter of all homicide victims are female.

Up to seventy percent of females who have been murdered were killed by an intimate partner.

just hope he feels the same way about me after he finds out about my revelation. I feel ill every time I think about it. But I can’t keep it from him much longer.

Human beings don’t deal well with rejection. Back when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, being ostracized from a tribe was akin to a death sentence. For that reason, rejection is experienced by human beings as being incredibly painful.

Studies using functional MRI have shown the same areas of the brain become activated both during rejection and during real physical pain.

narcissistic personality disorder—the characteristics of this diagnosis include a long-term pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, cravings for admiration, and impaired empathy.

psychological study demonstrated that cheating or breaking rules results in an unexpectedly

good mood afterward. As well as a brief sense of freedom from all rules. So perhaps we should all bend the rules sometimes.

believe that any human being is capable of terrible things if you push them hard enough.

He’s such a great husband, and he’s going to be a great father. You need somebody like that—somebody who is so level-headed in a time of crisis. That’s Ethan.

“My mother always says the only way two people can keep a secret,” she says, “is if one of them is dead.”

I told Ethan that after a dead body is buried in the ground, plant growth is suppressed for about a year, but then it comes back even better than before. And it’s not like somebody was going to look at that patch of soil where nothing could grow and know that Luke Strauss’s body was buried underneath.

His body will act as fertilizer for years to come. As

After all, my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead.