229 Quotes About Pretend

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

Doing ‘nothing’ is often cowardice that we’ve dressed up to look like discretion.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.