It's So Hard To Pretend Quotes

#1. He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.

Dean Koontz

#2. It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#3. I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.

Sarah Dessen

#4. I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.

Ezra Miller

#5. Phoebe, don't play coy. If you were willing to give a peeping Tom a show, and you thought you were doing it for my benefit, then let's cut the pretend out of this and shoot straight for cold hard honesty

Poppet

#6. Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do..

Anonymous

#8. I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell. Feelings are facts," she said, her voice a little hard, as she began to walk again. "Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If

Mary Doria Russell

#9. It's hard when I get to the end of the movie and am held hostage and am supposed to be very upset and the funniest things I've ever heard in my life are coming out. All I can do is pretend there's something really important behind me to hide my face from it.

Brie Larson

#10. It is hardest to kill the man who has the most to live for.' He took a pretend shot. 'The empty, the soulless, the hate-filled enemies drop like flies. Those who love, and love hard, are the ones left standing.

Catherine Doyle

#11. He never heard my story but he taught me it wasn't true. It was just pretend but pretending is hard.

Elizabeth Scott

#12. If you pretend something hard enough, could it become real?

Megan Miranda

#13. What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said.
Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.

Tania Unsworth

#14. I know you don't want to scare her, but you can't pretend that her life isn't going to be hard. It's not fair.

Alexandra Bracken

#15. Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

Henry Rollins

#16. Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. I really like him. I can't help it. And no matter how hard i try to pretend otherwise, it doesn't make it any less true.

Alyson Noel

#18. We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.

Deborah Reber

#19. It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Alan Ball

#20. He laughs. "Having a hard time resisting me after that dance?"
"That dance was ... " I pretend great interest in my thumbs as I send the video file to my email and close the phone up.
"Irresistible? Sensuous? Seductive?"
"Nauseating?

Stacey Jay

#21. It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

Edie Brickell

#22. I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

Lauren London

#23. You're going to make me dance to this, aren't you?" he asked.
"It's Valentine's Day, Finch. Pretend I'm a boy."
He laughed, pulling me into his arms. "It's hard to do that when you're wearing a short pink dress."
"Whatever. Like you've never seen a boy in a dress."
Finch shrugged. "True.

Jamie McGuire

#24. Can't pretend I hadn't thought about Rachel. She was so much easier to be around than ... well, than some other girls I knew. I didn't have to work hard, or watch what I said, or rack my brain trying to figure out what she was thinking. Rachel didn't hide much. She let you know how she felt.

Rick Riordan

#25. When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Teresa Heinz

#26. Sometimes it's hard to seperate illusion from reality because you have to use one to obtain the other. And even though you know the difference between the truth and a lie, there are moments when it's best to pretend, even to yourself.

Books

#27. It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened.

Jodi Picoult

#28. You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do," I breathed, trying hard to pretend I wasn't fazed by what just happened. "You weren't listening to me."
He stared at me with intensity for several seconds. "That's an interesting way to get my attention.

Alicia Kobishop

#30. I've heard if you pretend long enough - or maybe wish hard enough - faking normal becomes real. I'm counting on that. Until then, I'll carry on.

Ann Aguirre

#31. And when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that I'd just lost another friend.

Morgan Matson

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#33. Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it ...

Mark Twain

#34. A beat as Queenie drinks the whole story out of Newt's head. She looks both intrigued and saddened. Newt continues to work, trying hard to pretend Queenie isn't reading his mind.

J.K. Rowling

#35. I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!

Evangeline Lilly

#36. I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

Nicole Kidman

#37. It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

Douglas Coupland

#38. Everyone is watching you. If you don't believe it, just pretend to fail and you'll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone's business!

Israelmore Ayivor