It taught me how to see him, and people like him, entirely: to stop asking whether there was any truth in what he said, because there was always some, and to start asking instead what enormous falsehood that fragment of truth was being used to smuggle in.

The grain of truth was never evidence of his honesty.

It was the delivery mechanism for his lie.

Chapter 14 — With Whose Money

That pattern, once I saw it, explained the whole shape of the thing he had tried to build.

It was true that I traveled for work.

It was true that he sometimes took Chloe to school.

It was true that he had been affectionate, at times, over the years.