“Even when she was pretending she wasn’t hurt, she never pretended not tomiss him.”
“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”
“Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.”
“I understand Neverfell, you see. For Neverfell, it is as if other people are part of her. When she believes they are in pain, it hurts her, like a wound in a pretend limb. So right now she is in pain for all the people she saw in the Undercity.”
“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”
“She smiled, pretending to be unaware like every child, but she knew. Children know things even if they can’t explain them in words.”