Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. — Louisa May Alcott
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he… — David Sedaris
If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in. — Cornelia Funke
I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly… — Caroline B. Cooney
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"… — Harlan Coben
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive… — Evelyn Waugh
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is… — Alan Alda
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no… — Paulo Coelho
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts. — Anais Nin
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off?… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're… — Richard Siken
You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if… — Wendy Mass
I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. — Oscar Wilde
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. — Julian Barnes
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and… — James Joyce
The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at… — Jeanne Birdsall
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion,… — David Guterson
I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It… — David Klass
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this… — Lewis Carroll
There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life… — Cassandra Clare
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. — Rabih Alameddine

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