Lie With Me

"...I allow my gaze to wander to the people walking across the lobby. I watch their comings and goings, and invent the lives of these people in my mind. I try to imagine where they are coming from and where they are headed. I've always loved to do that, to invent the lives of strangers in passing. It could almost be considered an obsession. I believe it started when I was a child. I remember its worrying my mother. "Stop with your lies! She would say. She used the word "lies" instead of "stories," but nevertheless, it continued, and all these years later, I still find myself doing it." - Prologue, Lie with Me by Philippe Besson, translated from the French by Molly Ringwald.