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I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. — Sergio De La Pava

His eyes were dark. I knew that look. He was suddenly possessive of me, but I pretended not to notice. — J.L.Drake

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy. — Dave Eggers

She held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day — Khaled Hosseini

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears! — Theophile Gautier

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended. — Thomas Jefferson

she freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane. — Henry James

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris

One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting list showed no gaps. — Marcel Proust

Next time he pretended to die, he would do so on his stomach. It would be much easier. — Kristi Ann Hunter

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. — Arthur Bremer

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen. — Jayma Mays

Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours."
He pretended to think on it. " It's a bargain. — Tessa Dare

Quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine — Adeline Yen Mah

I pretended indifference ... even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond. — Louise Gluck

We both pretended to attach no significance to what had happened, and so revealed just how much significance there was. — S.J. Watson

There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it. — Patrick Rothfuss

She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her. — Walter Kirn

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice ... — George R R Martin

Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special. — Kelsang Gyatso

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. — Melissa De La Cruz

She kept it all inside, she pretended it was all normal while she fought not to drown and dared not cry. Not where they could see. — Lucian Bane

At work, he pretended every woman customer was a floozy with a hard-luck story who only needed a good slapping. — Tim Dorsey

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. — Ida Lupino

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. — Patti LaBelle

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. — John Gay

He felt the devil twisting his tail, and pretended it was the angels smiling on him. — D.H. Lawrence

I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me.
- Rosie — Sharon Creech

When I was pink and clean I crawled into bed and pretended I was at Disney World. — Janet Evanovich

Everyone pretended to understand so as not to interrupt. — Rene Daumal

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. — Albert Camus

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function. — Beck

I pretended that lying frozen on the ground wasn't pure terror at work, that it was an actual plan versus being entirely too frightened to move. — Flora Dare

It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth. — Epicurus

A vampire attacked me last night. Ivy pretended a faint. — Gail Carriger

My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. 'Since when have you liked Wagner? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.
Piper — T. Greenwood

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron

She pretended she understood him, but how could she? He lived in the stars, and she was good, solid earth. She — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRETENDED SHE WAS YOU. illutions- aprilynne pike — Aprilynne Pike

I never pretended to be a great actor. — Joel McCrea

Is that your smile? Truly?" I pretended to shudder. "Looks more like a demented hyena. — Mia Sheridan

Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. — Walter Scott

My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me. — Stella Young

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality. — Maureen Johnson

I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act. — Jenny Mollen

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes. — George R R Martin

I pretended my eyeballs had weights on them to stop myself from rolling them to the back of my head. — Donna Augustine

She pretended he knew some of her thoughts, only some of them, the ones she would like to show him. — Marilynne Robinson

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists. — Fulton J. Sheen

Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised. — C.J. Milbrandt

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

My dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions. — Melina Marchetta

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point. — Cary Grant

I pretended not to see as Eddie kissed Jill goodbye and promised to see her soon. — Richelle Mead

A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder. — Anthony Hope

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised. — Elin Hilderbrand

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive. — Naomie Harris

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. — Elbridge Gerry

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them. — Maggie Stiefvater

And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger. — Melissa De La Cruz

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. — Quintilian

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. — Jim McDermott

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. — Saul Bellow

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty. — Jonathan Winters

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ — Tom Clancy

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need. — Natalie J. Damschroder

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. — James Madison

Kerry pretended to ignore Dante — Sara Humphreys

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice. — Raquel Cepeda

Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble — Robert Graves

Everybody sees but once in awhile stars glide and hope flickers when you meet someone who see through the person you have for so long pretended to be. — Donal O'Callaghan

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended ... and then believe it. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams
he (life) continued to lie still, pretended
as if he was in a deep slumber. — Suman Pokhrel

After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type — Lena Dunham

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary. — Judy Teel

I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant. — Oliver Goldsmith

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything. — Liane Moriarty

pretended to be interested in her, allowing — Julia London

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required. — Willie Nelson

I never pretended with you. — Maria V. Snyder

When we studied the 1920s, he pretended that cell phones were illegal and made half the class narcs, and then he had us read The Great Gatsby. — Alison Umminger

And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was. — Lorraine Heath

He really didn't care, but he tried to pretend he did. — Jason Medina

Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness. — Georg Ebers

Taryn, are you even listening to me?
I pretended to, so let that be enough — Suzanne Wright

I kept my eyes to the mountains and pretended not to feel the wet gliding down my cheeks. — Kristen Ashley

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock. — Pete Wentz

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil. — Niecy Nash

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice. — Plato

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible. — Archimedes

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty. — Thomas Paine

pretended we were partners, but the whole time she'd — Lisa Brown Roberts

Confronted by something she couldn't explain, she pretended it wasn't there. Dude, ostrich much? — Karen Marie Moning

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. — Robert Breault

I pretended to be done with love again, although deep down, I craved it. Craved intimacy with anyone, really. — Cindi Madsen

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi