The Toll

"You are a terrible person," the Thunderhead said. "You are a wonderful person."

"Well, which is it?" Greyson demanded.

And the response, as faint as faint could be, came back to him - not as an answer, but as another question.

"Why can't you see that the answer is both?"

"You know that I can't. To deny it would be lying, and I am incapable of untruth. Partial truth, perhaps, misleading implications when absolutely necessary, and, as you noted, a tactical change of subject...but I will never lie."

The Toll part of Arc of Scythes by Neal Shusterman