pretending Quotes

“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

“Perhaps we were meant to meet.”

“The same goes for us, whatever we do. Instead of pretending that we are living some great story, we must remain focused on the execution- and on executing with excellence.”

“Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences.”

“They can pretend that every act was forced on them under emergency and that every decision was mothered by necessity”

“At home Lilly pretended to be Mr. Slinger. “I am the teacher,” she told her baby brother, Julius. “Listen up!”.”

“My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees to beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat... I am a Chihuahua!”

“My name is Skippito Friskito. I fear not a single bandito. My manners are mellow, I’m sweet like the jell-o, I get the job done, yes indeed-o.”

“With a walk into his closet, his thoughts took him down a lonesome desert road, far, far away in old Mexico....”

“Soon she would be forgotten and ignored, dismissed as a swot or as too stuck up to bother with. That was painful sometimes, but it was easier than having to pretend to be like everyone else.”

“The wolf relates how he was making a birthday cake for his dear old granny when he ran out of sugar. Off he went to his neighbor’s to borrow a cup, but, because of his terrible cold, he sneezed a great sneeze, and the whole straw house fell down, leaving the occupant, the First Little Pig, dead as a doornail. So the wolf ate him.”

“The first few days when Rosa goes for a walk, she lies right down on the sidewalk and pretends she’s dead. The daycare ladies ask her aunt, ‘Does Rosa usually lie down and pretend she’s dead?’ ‘Yes, she does,’ says Rosa’s aunt. But after a week Rosa isn’t as tired anymore. She starts walking faster.”

“I don’t want to be another one of those people who just pretend like they don’t know about the suffering, like they don’t see it every single day, like they don’t walk past it on their way to school or work.”

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

“I hated pretending to like these people, hated pretending to agree with their awful hatred of the Jews, hated pretending I wanted them to win the war and conquer the world. But I smiled because I had to.”

“I have stared at a book pretending I couldn’t hear what was going on around me, too. If people think you can’t hear them, they talk as if you couldn’t. You can hear some pretty neat stuff that way.”

“It looked that the Carters were pretending they were still in England.”

“The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality, a wicked witch, who lay in wait for children, and had only built the little house of bread in order to entice them there.”

“Baby Bear was not asleep either. He was lying in bed pretending to be an aeroplane. ‘NYAAOW!’ went Baby Bear, ‘NYAAOW! NYAAOW!’ ‘Oh NO!’ said Mr. Bear, ‘I can’t stand THIS.‘”

“Because freak shows were terrible,” he said. “They pretended to be like proper circuses but they were cesspits of evil. Anybody who went to one would be just as bad as the people running it.”

“Because of course the only way pretending is any good is if you never say right out that that’s what you’re doing.”

“For in a caliphate where a woman’s actions were always in danger of being turned against her, there was nothing easy about pretending to be a man.”

We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits.