#pretending

Well enough,” I reply. “Remember, you’re drunk. And happy. You’re supposed to be lusting over your escort. Try smiling a little more.” Day plasters a giant artificial smile on his face. As charming as ever. “Aw, come on, sweetheart. I thought I was doing a pretty good job. I got my arm around the prettiest escort on this block—how could I not be lusting over you? Don’t I look like I’m lusting? This is me, lusting.” His lashes flutter at me. He looks so ridiculous that I can’t help laughing. Another passerby glances at me. “Much better. ↗

— Marie Lu

#humor #lust #pretending #humor

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

— Terra Elan McVoy

#love #pretending #tired #love

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

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

— William Joyce

#nicholas-st-north #north #ombric #pretending #rise-of-the-guardians

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#deceive #decisions #got #i #i think

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#live #lives #model #nobody #people

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

— Christina Aguilera

#gotta #keep #makes #need #ourselves

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#around #bad #couple #get #got

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#dare #embarrass #liberating #pretending #risk

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#attention #being #being funny #deformed #funny