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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, n...

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On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to h...

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Joyce Carol OatesThe Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it mark...

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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...

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I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...

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The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and e...

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I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

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Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most s...

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