This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
Dave Eggers, The Circle
chaos, deceit, deception, faking, faking-being-happy, faking-happiness, faking-normal, hiding, hiding-feelings, hiding-the-truth, mind, pretend, pretend-happiness, pretending, pretending-it-s-okay