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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.”
― The Bitter Kingdom
― The Bitter Kingdom
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...”
― Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
― Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
“You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.”
― Change of Heart
― Change of Heart
“And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
“I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend.
I might also pretend to not let you down.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
I might also pretend to not let you down.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
“Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
“This is when I learned that nice people sometimes felt they had to pretend to be mean and awful.”
― The Good Luck of Right Now
― The Good Luck of Right Now
“It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.”
― Breathing Underwater
― Breathing Underwater
“who did I think we were.
who did I think
I could make you.
this is the oldest mistake,
to confuse wanting
with magic. silence is the undoing
of every spell, and we are experts
in the unsaid. even now, I forget
to put us in past tense. as if
the air in this city were the same.
as if love is anything like its speaking.”
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who did I think
I could make you.
this is the oldest mistake,
to confuse wanting
with magic. silence is the undoing
of every spell, and we are experts
in the unsaid. even now, I forget
to put us in past tense. as if
the air in this city were the same.
as if love is anything like its speaking.”
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