“I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.”
“Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.”
“He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretending he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.”
“It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”
“But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.”
“I could pretend that I was okI wind around the parties, drink in handI could pretend when you went awayThat I had changed and I no longer hear the band”