Pretend Quotes

1734 Pretend quotes by 1217 unique authors

When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this… — David Hume
Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour… — Laurie Halse Anderson
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself… — Margaret Atwood
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd… — David Benioff
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened… — Sharon Creech
Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get… — Chuck Klosterman
I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is. — David Levithan
But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday… — P. C. Cast
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think… — Clive Barker
I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend — Jeffrey Eugenides
your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are — Scott Westerfeld
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible… — Hermann Hesse
In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching. — Francesca Lia Block
And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing. — Jacqueline Carey
Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out… — James Patterson
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it. — Libba Bray
I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend,… — Claudia Gray
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want… — Walt Disney
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars.… — Marisha Pessl
we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend. — Meg Waite Clayton
The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than… — Darcey Steinke
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. — Booth Tarkington
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe — the gods… — Daniel Dennett
They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as… — Paulo Coelho

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