Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people? - Shirley Jackson

"I think we are only afraid of ourselves," the doctor said slowly.
"No," Luke said. "Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise."

And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.

I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie.