229 Quotes About Pretend

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

This girl had been looking on with her hair hanging over her face, only partly hiding a cruel-looking scar; her eyes shone with hatred. Not necessarily hatred of your father or of puppets or the other children, but a hatred of make-believe, which did not heal, but was only useful to the people who didn't need it.

Authors. We write to pretend we're not crazy for talking to ourselves.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper.

Playing a fool is the best paid role.

Be a man! Put on a mask.

But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.

We are all making it up as we go along, unmaking our minds and remaking ourselves.