Here is an extract of what I found interesting from Picoult's Lone Wolf. This paragraph is one of the numerous interesting monologues by Luke Warren, the wolf-man.
"There's
an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy,
no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show admiration by
confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are
masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really
love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to
know the real answer. She wants you to
lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how
many lies it takes to build a relationship. I would think of the big
beta in Quebec, which I knew would fight to the death to protect me. I
trusted him implicitly because he trusted me. But here, among humans,
there are so many half-truths and white lies that it was too hard to
remember what was real and what wasn't."
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