I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don’t write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it’s fair to say I...

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

Much better.

Pretending to feel something you don’t can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

Be not who you’re not

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.

Pretending is the fastest way to believing, and believing is the fastest way to receiving.

An educated theologian: someone who’s better at rationalizing what they’re pretending to know.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn’t survive...

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

This was a new skill she’d acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Mama wasn’t dead…exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin’ you couldn’t move or breathe until nightfall when you got up...

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among all the other creative personalities, feeding a hungry imagination through the vicarious reliving of each and every wild chapter that...

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

You’re like this…this goddess pretending to be human… And I don’t know which one I love.

The truth is we are all a mess! None is perfect and without sin. So, moving forward let’s stop acting like we are since we are not.

I’ve learned to get really good at this – say one thing when I’m thinking about something else, act like I’m listening when I’m not, pretend to be calm and happy when I’m really freaking out. It’s one of the skills you perfect as you get older

I’ll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion’s heart,But at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion.

How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly it would be if the nights were tan and the mornings green and the sun cyan!How totally ridiculous if horses...

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending… we gotta let ourselves be.

There’s no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual Deceptions don’t lead anywhere !!

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

I am who I pretend to be, and right now I’m pretending to be my own clone.

Don’t ever quit pretending.

In a fallacious world where we live; it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.

Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.

Pretending is such a hard game to play sometimes.

That’s such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.’ -Finn (165)

Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.

Whatever is above will be managed by the powers above you. Don’t live as a man, pretending to be God. Do what you can do; leave what you can’t to God!

We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.

I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…

Well…letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

Throw off your grief,’ doubters imply, ‘and we can all go back to pretending death doesn’t exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

You don’t have to pretend with me, you know.’ He reaches out and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. His expression is so open and honest I feel it like a sucker punch. ‘I used to pretend, all the time, so I can spot it a mile away. If you’re feeling shit,...

You can trust bad liars.

who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto put us in past tense. as ifthe air in this city were the same.as if love is anything like its...

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.