When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more...protecting themselves.

I just wanted to go to...some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else.

How many of them have secrets they don't want the world to know? How many of them wear masks wherever they go? We're anything but typical.

It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their most hidden pains and hopes, and not know the tiniest detail about them.

Or you could simply throw down a few inches of compost and fake it. That's what we do, isn't it? Do the best with what we have? It's not lying, dear. Don't look at it that way. It's hopeful pretending. Consider it your patriotic duty.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.