An Honest Lie Novels & Stories

"When I handed Jil over to you, you promised to love and protect her. Have you forgotten? Only a few years in, and this is what we get! We may be old, but we're not dead!" Harvey dared not cry out in pain and only grunted softly every time the spatula struck. He wanted to explain himself, only to open his mouth and close it again. "Just go. We don't want you getting hurt and blaming it on us later." Holding the spatula, Dad was about to close the door when Harvey, who had stayed silent the whole time, lunged forward and jammed his hand in the frame. "Please, let me talk to Jilian. I have something to tell her. I know that I've messed up, and I'm here to make things right. Please let me talk

he trails off. “Excuse me??” I angrily interrupt “You expect me to tell such a huge lie on national television?” I question him to be sure if he has an idea of the magnitude of what he is making me do. “What do you mean by huge lie? And when exactly did you start having a problem with lying” Elliot questions “You know that if I can avoid lying, I will actually pick honesty over lying” I remind him of my principle “ I am well aware of that, but in this situation lying is unavoidable, so the best option you have is to build the story that I am giving you into a beautiful love story for you and Meelah” he says like it is something so easy.

he said then, and my heart cracked. I dragged my lower lip through my teeth, scrambling to come up with a response. He was right, of course. Goddess, he was right. I had lied. Lied and lied and lied. “You see…” I struggled to find the right words. “For a long time, I thought I was doing the best for you by lying.” “That doesn’t sound right,” Jane said, wrinkling her nose. “You always tell us to be honest.” I sighed. “I know. But sometimes adults have to lie to keep the people we love safe. It’s complicated.”

she said then looked at him, his eyes stared at her like they could see lies, she quickly looked away “You are lying” he said “God! You are so honest” she said it like it was to be hated “Isn’t that a good thing?” “Well it is… But in your case I don’t know what to say” “Don’t you lie?” she asked “Never happened… Why should I lie when I know the truth? Lies complicate things and you’d have to lie to protect a lie, it is like an onion, the layers never stop growing out” “Hmmmm… you are quite the smart ass” she reacted then stared at him for a while

Chapter 252 Ellie I don't like lying. That doesn't mean that I've never lied before no have I ever forced to eat myself out of a sticky situation ,I have lied before and I've sugar coated the truth before but; a lie is a lie is a lie. There are people that you can lie to and there are people that you should tell the full extent of the truth to . There is also a difference between being deceitful and omitting information that someone needs to know .

“I only want an honest conversation.” Honesty. The word sounded strange coming from him. All he knew how to do was lie and twist the truth to benefit himself. "Fine," I agreed. "Let's have lunch."

"You do know that we have very strong hearing, right? There is no need whispering when I can hear the movement of your blood in your veins." "You don't say shit like that, Lokun. I am just starting to trust you guys," Zaynab shouted. "But why should I not say things like that if it it the truth? Humans values the truth." "Well, Lokun... We humans hate the truth, especially the scary ones like the one you just told her now. We just lie to ourselves that we want to hear the truth, but in reality we want to be protected from it," I replied. "Why?" Lokun asked again.

“Mom, um are we going to have to go to Dad’s house, like Kenny does?” I take a deep breath trying to decide if I should be completely honest with my son. As a general rule, I do not lie to my kids. I had always figured that if I lied to them, then we would never trust me when it came to the bigger things. “Ok well honestly I do not know right now. Your dad does not have his own apartment yet, and he says that he is really busy with school. This whole thing is new to us, and I do not have all the answers right now.” I decide to go with vague honesty, hoping that it will satisfy his curiosity for the moment. Lucky for me, my son shakes his head in acknowledgement, and starts talking about his

Ashton calls after us. I Laughed in glee and swallowed down the guilt. Sometimes the only way for us to get the things we want in life is to tell a little white lie but it is okay, as long as the truth doesn’t come out and Noah will never find out the truth about what really happened that day.

"You want me to lie to him?" "No, I say you don't need to tell him about it. There's nothing wrong with it, people are allowed to have secrets." "It's a lie just the same." "It's not a lie. It's called keeping a secret. As long as he doesn't know about it, everybody will be happy." "No, hiding something on purpose is the same as lying, and I can never do that, especially when he's already been too kind and forgiving. It's only fair to tell him the truth."