Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

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
...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. — Alice Hoffman
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for… — Charles Baxter
...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending)… — Francesca Lia Block
The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. — Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep — Sherman Alexie
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has… — Peter Cameron
You gain power by pretending to be weak. — Chuck Palahniuk
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not… — Ayn Rand
I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it… — Sloane Crosley
From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much… — Sylvia Plath
Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that… — Ellen Hopkins
I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. — Margaret Atwood
While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer
the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending! — Pearl Cleage
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis
Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your… — Mary Ann Shaffer
The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending. — Jodi Picoult
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am… — Tite Kubo
It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another… — Maggie Stiefvater
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this… — Augusten Burroughs
So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy… — Anne Lamott
And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to… — Lauren Oliver

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