pretending

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

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion's heart,But at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion.

Pretending is one of our greatest pleasures. But you have to know you're pretending.

Pretending is the fastest way to believing, and believing is the fastest way to receiving.

Pretending is such a hard game to play sometimes.

Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.

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.

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

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.

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That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)

Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.

Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

I__ tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything__ okay, tired of not being with him_

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.