“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”
“My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.”
“Like Santa Claus. You adults pretend he doesn't exist, but we know that he really does.”
“She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.”
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
“It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.”