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“He had often been put into a time-out to "think about what he said," but when he did, he never wanted to revise his original words. Eventually her learned to guess what people wanted to hear and what they didn't . To him, it had always felt like lying. Wasn't an omission just as bad as an untruth?” — Jodi Picoult

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He had often been put into a time-out to "think about what he said," but when he did, he never wanted to revise his original words. Eventually her learned to guess what people wanted to hear and what they didn't . To him, it had always felt like lying. Wasn't an omission just as bad as an untruth?
— Jodi Picoult