Never Lie

by Freida McFadden

Liars fidget. The tone of their voice or speech patterns changes. Liars offer too much information, babbling on with excessive detail to convince

themselves or others of what they are saying.

It’s so amazing sharing my life with him. Except for the one big secret he doesn’t know about yet.

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

“Adrienne Hale,” he reads off the back cover. “Isn’t she that shrink who got murdered?”

Ethan, on the other hand, has been incredibly loyal during the time we’ve been together. He never even

looks at other women, even though they look at him all the time.

How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer. And nobody who answers ever tells the truth.

I 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 rea...

had diagnosed EJ with 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.

“It’s easy to be the best husband ever when I have the best wife ever.”

No matter how many times we’ve had sex, he still acts like it’s the greatest thing in the world and he can’t believe he got to score with me.

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

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