Pretending Quotes - Page 16

• It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.

  Veronica Roth

  Different, Three, Way

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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 my guards. And the next time, I might need the help.” “There better not be a next time,” Ari said, giving me a stern look. “How touching,” Janco said, pretending to wipe his eyes. “Get going, Yelena. I don’t want you to see me cry.” He faked a sniffle. “I’m sure your ego can handle it,” I said. “Or will you need to beat up some trainees to feel like a man again?” “Very funny,” he said.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eye, Caring, Men

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.221, Harlequin

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• Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

  Katherine Applegate

  Wish, Doe, Humour

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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

  Waiting, Suitable, Intervals

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Insane, Normal

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2008). “Agnes and the Hitman”, p.194, Macmillan

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• My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.

  Colin Clark

  Dream, Spring, Unique

  Colin Clark (2011). “My Week with Marilyn”, p.9, Weinstein Books

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Doors, People, Next

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• She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.' 'Skinny?' I squeal. 'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me.' 'You sure about that?' 'No, but I'm hoping.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

  Brent Weeks

  Trying, Done, Dukes

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Strong, People, Gains

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Talking, Goes On, Bears

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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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 murmered. As she had her back to him, he placed his nose on her neck and slid his arm underneath her to be as close to her as possible. Short strands of her hair tickled his nostrils. "Camille?" Was she asleep? Was she pretending? No answer either way. "I like being with you." A little smile. Was she dreaming? Was she asleep? Who knows.

  Anna Gavalda

  Dream, Hair, Drunk

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• There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

  Liu Shaoqi

  Leadership, Past, Pigs

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• Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Suffering

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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, History, Understanding

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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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 been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Games, Helping

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.60, 谷月社

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• I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Caring, Earthquakes, Diaries

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

  Eleanor Catton

  Self, Perspective, Dawn

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

  Richard Siken

  Kids, Tables, Ghost

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• My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Climbing, Hands, Breathing

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.709, Dell

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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 down at her, not moving at all. “Am I?” “Are you what?” She peeked up at him through her tangled hair, pretending confusion. There was no possible way she was going to make this easy for him. “Your love?” “Well, you are a werewolf, Scottish, naked, and covered in blood, and I am still holding your hand.” He sighed in evident relief. “Good. That is settled, then.

  Gail Carriger

  Moving, Hair, Blood

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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, the dreamers and you.

  Jim Henson

  Life, Believe, Writing

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• That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Thinking, Guy, Like Me

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.20, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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