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.

I will know the truth. I always know. Never lie to me.

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

Hmmm.

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

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.

Statistically, the risk of such a thing is low. Less than a quarter of all homicide victims are female. Most of those women are young and low-income.

A 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.

Just tell him, you wuss. What’s he going to do—fly into a furious rage, murder you, and bury your body in the snow?

Maybe

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