#pretend

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life-lesson #pretend #change

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. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#friendship #laughter #pretending #dating

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#enemy #possum #pretending-death #shot-twice #twice

You don't look fake when you unconsciously pretend. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #pretend #unconscious #life

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ↗

— Alan Watts

#command #feel #love #love is #never

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 ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#listening #pretending #acting

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#healing #heart #imaginary-friend #imagination #inspirational

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #peeta #pretend #relationships #the-hunger-games

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 spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#get #knows #lot #money #otherwise