“Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.”

“Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Now, there are some things that never die, so even though I'm in my nineties my sap sometimes rises. I can't help it. They always pretend not to notice. They're trained that way, I suppose, although pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. It means they consider me nothing more than a harmless old man sporting a harmless old penis that still gets uppity once in a while. Although if one of them took it seriously and tried to do something about it, the shock would probably kill me.”

“Even worse than not being noticed, he decided, was being noticed and found wanting.”

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

“They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.”

“True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Jaden pretending not to notice.”