“Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.”
“A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.”
“dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”
“Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.”
“The world is large, dear Will, and we, no matter how much we would like to pretend otherwise, we are quite small.”
“I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend, see?I groaned. My explanations were making my head hurt already.”