And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...
Mots clés reality romantic lost identity romance be-yourself secret try yourself mystery play trying suspense obsession lonely hidden perfect perfection gothic young-adult pretend postmodern mysterious masks lose mask postmodernism real myself hide pretending secretive roles who-you-are gothic-romance realize goth freya strive role masked young-adult-suspense cardew obsessive young-adult-gothic-romance who-i-am
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
Simona PanovaMots clés strength romantic strong dramatic romance weak weakness theater emotion alone control drama self-image play feelings acting suspense theatre lonely gothic always young-adult audience pretend postmodern masks mask postmodernism hide feel fake emotional hiding forbidden demand actor actress pretending gothic-romance goth demanding forbid emotionless young-adult-gothic-romance exact exacting feelless stern
When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among all the other creative personalities, feeding a hungry imagination through the vicarious reliving of each and every wild chapter that stirred his emotions, the whole while surrendering to a safe yet daring existence where any crazy, hopeful thing can and does happen. That's all.
Richelle E. GoodrichMots clés imagination reading books writing creativity pretending richelle imagination-reading book-reading richelle-goodrich
Like Sarah, treat your husband like what he might become. When all the facts said Sarah would have no vineyard, she became a matriarch to nations. Sarah learned to behave as though she would become a mother to nations--and she did.
Michael Ben ZehabeMots clés faith sarah pretending hoping shulamite song-of-songs song-of-solomon shunemite
Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
Shannon L. AlderMots clés truth honesty history relationships purity false liars fake the-past confused scared inattention pretending close-minded insecure insecure-women fearful jealous-women angry-men fake-christians cheaters hidden-motives false-witness
I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J.K. RowlingMots clés success purpose writing work pretending
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
Peter BoghossianMots clés humor knowledge funny theology rationalization pretending theologian
In a fallacious world where we live; it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.
M.F. MoonzajerMots clés world easy god live create pretending fallacious
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.
Shannon CelebiMots clés freedom death free dead death-and-dying ghosts pretending dead-people death-of-a-loved-one dead-and-gone mama pretending-death
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal. We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale.
Derek SiversMots clés life pretending
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