The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

Bubbly is bogus.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Never bored on a hoverboard.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was."
"It's just programming!"
"No. It's because I love him.