I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…
Terra Elan McVoyTags: love alone pretending tired
To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.
William JoyceTags: imagination time space pretending north nicholas-st-north ombric rise-of-the-guardians
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 OliverTags: happiness pretending
The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.
Isaac MarionTags: pretending
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.
Francesca Lia BlockTags: reality children fantasy childhood playing child games pretend game fantasies fantastic pretending playing-games
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.
Tags: humor lust drunk pretending
It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.
Anthony HopeTags: mask seeming pretending impersonate play-acting
We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill WillinghamTags: belief children live suicide pretend fragile pretending toys regicide
Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.
Stacey KadeTags: emotion feeling pretending real-thing
Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.
Anthon St. MaartenTags: fear honesty self-esteem courage bravery be-yourself authenticity self-awareness fearlessness inner-peace exploration vulnerability self-realization imperfection masks pretense real self-belief limitations fearless self-love inner-strength insecurity pretending columbus true-self pretentiousness masquerade believe-in-yourself fake-people geniune phoney be-you inauthenticity be-yourself-quote
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