“Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed here. Know something? There's only one thing that'll bring 'em back, and that's indifference. The one thing you can't fake.'
'But you are faking it.'
'At the moment I might be. But as soon as it stops being faked and starts being real, he'll turn up. Rule number one of modern life.”

— Helen Garner , book The Children's Bach

Page 80.
The Children's Bach (1984)

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Helen Garner 17

Australian author 1942

John Barnes book Mother of Storms

Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 406

“I want to be the girl with the most cake
He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
I fake it so real, I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

"Doll Parts"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”

Douglas Coupland book JPod

Source: JPod (2006)
Context: Here’s my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic — they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.