Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

“Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.”

“I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest."Her head snap…”

“But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. I…”

“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another ri…”