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...

You can trust bad liars.

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

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...

I have always been afraid… Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am … scared to death just treading on your shadow.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us...

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 now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If...

There’s a great deal of power in pretending.

But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate.And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

We live through the belief of children…Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

Let us not pretend to be someone else !It is better to be hated for what we are than to be loved for what we are not.

Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It’s much more like when you’re a kid putting on a character.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i’m okay when i’m not, pretending i’m happy when i’m not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed...