Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be… — Jennifer Crusie
We’re multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To… — Jim Morrison
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. — Jodi Picoult
Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins,… — Richard Siken
Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending… — Daniel Handler
All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her. He worshipped… — Julia Quinn
They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now… — Neal Shusterman
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to… — John Irving
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.… — Jim Morrison
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A… — Carl Sagan
The problem of pretending to be alive. — Graham Greene
If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But… — Anthony Burgess
I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending. — Truman Capote
I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that… — Julian Barnes
She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt… — Portia de Rossi
I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking… — Richard Linklater
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. — Amy Sedaris
For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. — Chuck Palahniuk
I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important. — Megan Hart
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness.… — Margaret Haddix
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is… — Brad Barkley
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle… — Megan Whalen Turner

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