{"quotes":[{"text":"Absolutely. No more pretending!","author":"Dana Burkey","tags":["contemporary-romance","kiss","love","na","novella","pretending","romance","summer","truth","ya"],"id":3792,"author_id":"Dana+Burkey"},{"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":"She kept hoping something would change, but she knew she'd lost him to a world she could never be part of. So instead she pretended.Pretended to be strong.Pretended everything was alright.Pretended for Michael, for herself, but most of all for Willow. Because Willow loved Michael, and he, her – that much was obvious.","author":"Dominique Wilson","tags":["change","children","heartbreak","hope","loss-of-love","love","pretending","relationships"],"id":18000,"author_id":"Dominique+Wilson"},{"text":"Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.","author":"Christopher Morley","tags":["fiction","kitty-foyle","pretending"],"id":19166,"author_id":"Christopher+Morley"},{"text":"You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["broken-heart","broken-hearted","fake-love","faking-it","lost-love","lost-love","pretending","pretentiousness","shattered","shattered-heart","shattered-souls","tolerance","toleration"],"id":19219,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"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":"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":"Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.","author":"Saleema Nawaz","tags":["growing-up","pretending"],"id":39872,"author_id":"Saleema+Nawaz"},{"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":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}