{"quotes":[{"text":"It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.","author":"Emma Abdullah","tags":["comfort","pretend","reality"],"id":777,"author_id":"Emma+Abdullah"},{"text":"His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["adore","adored","anonymous","behind","blame","blamed","cardew","character","discuss","discussed","faceless","gothic","hate","hero","heroic","hide","loathe","loathed","love","loved","mask","masked","mystery","pretend","pretending","romance","unknown","young-adult"],"id":7810,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["convincing","gothic","lie","lying","nightmare","nightmarish","pretend","pretending","romance","sacrifice","tell","truth","young-adult"],"id":12882,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["authentic","authenticity","avoid","avoidance","brave","bravery","denial","fake","false","fear","forthright","frank","honest","honesty","pretend","real","truth","truthful"],"id":15465,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....And then believe it.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["dreams","envisioning","fantastical","fantasy","imagination","imagine","pretend","pretended","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":22014,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.","author":"Manoj Arora","tags":["live","live-life","pretend","pretending"],"id":35490,"author_id":"Manoj+Arora"},{"text":"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["made-up","pretend","richelle","richelle-goodrich","words","writing"],"id":36337,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"You have to pretend like you know what you’re doing before you know what you’re doing.","author":"Cody McLain","tags":["confidence","pretend","pretending"],"id":38376,"author_id":"Cody+McLain"},{"text":"We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.","author":"Tommy Tran","tags":["be-yourself","fantasy","inspirational","life","love","people","pretend","strength","strong"],"id":39143,"author_id":"Tommy+Tran"},{"text":"To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["change","commitment","imagination","imagine","influence","life","pain","pretend","pretending","sacrifice","sacrificing","suffering","transform","transformation","wonderful","work"],"id":43763,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":135,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}