“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”
“Synthetic chocolate sounds wrong.”
“He remembered that part like you’d remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn’t like it happened to you.”
“Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.”
“Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.”
“I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!""Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!”