The book of One Hundred Truths (2008)
“and all the others. But that isn’t true. Lies come in a lot of different colors.
White lies are the kind that protect other people’s feelings. Yellow lies are the ones that tell only part of a story; they leave things out.
Then there are pink lies; the pink ones exaggerate.
Green ones invent. Little kids like to use them. (“I saw a dinosaur yesterday. It made a nest in my yard.”) Blue lies are the ones that people use when they’re desperately trying to get out of trouble: “I didn’t rob that ban...k. Really. I don’t know where those bags of money came from.”
And there are red and purple and orange lies. Gwen and I made the colors up. We sat down one day and wrote up a chart.
That was before I turned into a liar myself. And of course the first few lies I told were all about Gwen.
It became pretty clear during the next few days that I was stuck with my little busybody cousin. It didn’t matter whether I was on vacation or whether I said I didn’t babysit. Liam and Austin were always at work (so were Celia and Ellen); Phoebe was busy with the baby (and had volunteered to entertain Edmund every morning, wearing him out so that he would take a nap every afternoon); and Nenna was usually cooking or doing some kind of housework.MoreLess
White lies are the kind that protect other people’s feelings. Yellow lies are the ones that tell only part of a story; they leave things out.
Then there are pink lies; the pink ones exaggerate.
Green ones invent. Little kids like to use them. (“I saw a dinosaur yesterday. It made a nest in my yard.”) Blue lies are the ones that people use when they’re desperately trying to get out of trouble: “I didn’t rob that ban...k. Really. I don’t know where those bags of money came from.”
And there are red and purple and orange lies. Gwen and I made the colors up. We sat down one day and wrote up a chart.
That was before I turned into a liar myself. And of course the first few lies I told were all about Gwen.
It became pretty clear during the next few days that I was stuck with my little busybody cousin. It didn’t matter whether I was on vacation or whether I said I didn’t babysit. Liam and Austin were always at work (so were Celia and Ellen); Phoebe was busy with the baby (and had volunteered to entertain Edmund every morning, wearing him out so that he would take a nap every afternoon); and Nenna was usually cooking or doing some kind of housework.MoreLess
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