I'm not a big fan of the white lie.
No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.
I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.