Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

The best lies are based on the
truth, at least in part

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.

When to people tell the same lie..."
"They are working together," Will finished

Why lie?

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.