Best Pretended Words
183 Pretended quotes by 161 unique authors
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she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day
— Khaled Hosseini
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He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable…
— Hermann Hesse
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Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch.…
— Suzanne Collins
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I laughed, loud enough that Delia looked up at me. She made motions for me to come over, but I pretended to be looking past…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
— Saul Bellow
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for…
— Ilona Andrews
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I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in…
— Sylvia Plath
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Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
— Nicole Krauss
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,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.
— Sara Shepard
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I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
— Jeannette Walls
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He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker…
— Jude Deveraux
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The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was…
— Paul Auster
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Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our…
— Pat Conroy
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A girl half my age swept by and slammed two giant tankard filled with beer on the table. Ragnvald held his up. I smashed my…
— Ilona Andrews
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We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. We…
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people…
— Walker Percy
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else?…
— Brent Weeks
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Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of…
— Kiersten White
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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around…
— Daniel Handler
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But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes…
— Franny Billingsley
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Oh yeah? What did you have last night?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. With a pickle." "And the night before?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. No pickle."…
— Nicholas Sparks
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