“Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. ”
“They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.”
“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”
“Now if you'll excuse me, I must go self-actualize.”
“Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.”
“Here I had a wonderful man who cared for meand I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed mein the worst possible way.”