“Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.”
“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”
“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.”
“Being in love is like being lit on fire and having your loved one morph into a marshmallow as she runs to embrace you. But not being in love feels so much worse, possibly like being a tax collector. Actually, nothing compares to the lowliness of a tax collector. ”
“But there are harder things than being invisible, it said.”
“When one has suspected a thing for weeks, why is being confronted with stark evidence so much worse?”