#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

I could pretend that I was ok I wind around the parties, drink in hand I could pretend when you went away That I had changed and I no longer hear the band ↗

— Corinne Bailey Rae

#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

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ... ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#pretend #situation #humor

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

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#pretend #being

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#pretending #think

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

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#expect #people #pretend #really #something