“Either way, it happened, and everyone was going to pretend that it didn't.”
“What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”
“Pretend-dating Gray Porter is going to be like pretend-dating a rainbow. Everyone looks at him all the time.”
“People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.”
“What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.”
“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.”