I’ll let you in on a little secret. I don’t believe all this sadness really exists. Well bad things happen, I’m not denying that. Somehow, when people start trying to show how they’ve been affected by these bad things, they start faking it. They know that deep down, no one really cares, but they want people to know their suffering, damn it. And others will go along with it, making faces, hoping someone will notice, so that when something awful happens to them, they can get some of this fake pity for themselves.
Chester Kent (Mark McKinney), The Saddest Music in the World