Fan Casting I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me in Sort by Tropes

Also known by: "I didn't know you knew I was alive!" This stock phrase is most frequently used in teenage romance stories, but not unheard of in other media. Essentially it's a declaration of delighted astonishment that one's object of romantic desire seems to feel the same way when the person saying it believed they never had a chance with their target partner. Often this occurs when the jock discovers Nerds Are Sexy.