Quote by Julia Brannan

“A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.”

— Doug Dillon

“As any first son staking claim to his family inheritance at an ailing father's behest, living as the heir to the Duke of Blendingham…

— Percival Avery

“And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.”

— Gayle Forman

“I was supposed to have a son.”

— Tom Perrotta

“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In a home, where the mother is strict, the son will be inept in proper worldly interactions.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real.”

— Kameron Hurley

“is a source of constant wonder to me how I came to have such a cork-brained parent. However, I have not the slightest reason…

— Georgette Heyer

“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent…

— René Girard

“The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my actual child. I didn't think I'd…

— Donovan Hohn

“We are the orphans of our son.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind.”

— Colum McCann