Pretending Quotes
811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors
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Oh, I know. They’re dwarfs pretending to be elves. No, they’re not dwarfs either. Okay, okay, they’re “little people,” I’m sorry! Can’t believe I have…
— Kevin Hearne
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I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though…
— Gaelen Foley
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First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,…
— Tim O'Brien
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And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
— Lauren Child
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I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.
— Darynda Jones
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again...
— Laini Taylor
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Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful…
— Steve Kluger
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You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.
— Holly Black
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I killed your friends.” – Abigail “And I’m not happy about that. But your head wasn’t screwed on right. It’s easy to let the enemies…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to…
— Ron McLarty
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She was sound asleep when he came to curl up next to her. She grunted. "Don't worry. I'm too drunk, I won't do anything," he…
— Anna Gavalda
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Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have…
— James M. Barrie
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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know…
— Stephen King
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has…
— Orson Scott Card
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Well, my love,” said Alexia with prodigious daring to Lord Maccon, “shall we?” The earl started to move forward and then stopped abruptly and looked…
— Gail Carriger
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Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers,…
— Jim Henson
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That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.
— Jeff Lindsay
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Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in…
— Paulo Coelho
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I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.
— Miranda July
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and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to…
— John Burnside
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Before Kiki and I headed toward the Keep, I thanked my friends. “For what? We didn’t do anything,” Janco grumbled. “For caring enough to follow…
— Maria V. Snyder
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I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.
— Jennifer Crusie
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some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Who Wrote These Pretending Quotes
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