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#1

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: masks, pretending, pretense

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#2

“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.”
― A. A. Milne

tags: pooh, pretending, rabbit

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#3

“We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: actors, pretending

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#4

“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: happiness, pretending

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#5

“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, Delirium

tags: acting, listening, pretending

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#6

“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, Prodigy

tags: drunk, humor, lust, pretending

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#7

“dear today,

i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: faking-it, happiness, letters, okay, pretending

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#8

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: act, acting, artifice, falsehood, game, games, illusion, lie, lies, playing, pretence, pretend, pretending, pretense

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#9

“I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.”
― Tite Kubo

tags: afraid, anime, bleach, death, pretending, renji, scared, shadow, truth

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#10

“A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: dreams, healing, heart, imaginary-friend, imagination, inspirational, pretending, richelle, richelle-goodrich, soothing, soul, strength

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#11

“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: achiever, attention, attitude, believe-in-yourself, character, confiding-in-yourself, estimation, eye-cany, eye-service, fake, false, ignorance, impress, impression, journey, michael-bassey-johnson, notice, pretence, pretending, pride, real, self-realization, show-off, the-real-man, what-you-are

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#12

“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, Keeping the Moon

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#13

“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”
― Sarah Miller, The Lost Crown

tags: anastasia, believing, otma, pretending, romanovs, russia, russian-revolution, tsar-nicholas-ii, war

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#14

“You can trust bad liars.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: heart, honest, pretending

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