“In doing this, I have sometimes felt the same sort of unease that washed over me when I was a cheerleader and learned how to convincingly fake happiness at football games – the feeling of acting as if conditions are fun and normal and worthwhile in the hopes that they will just magically become so.”

“In doing this, I have sometimes felt the same sort of unease that washed over me when I was a cheerleader and learned how to convincingly fake happiness at football games – the feeling of acting as if conditions are fun and normal and worthwhile in the hopes that they will just magically become so.”

— Jia Tolentino