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  1. Heather O'Neill _ Lullabies for Little Criminals

    When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.
    book-quotepretending

  2. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn {165}
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  3. Sue Grafton _ W is for Wasted

    maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was
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  4. Francesca Lia Block _ Wasteland

    It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.
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  5. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
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  6. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... {'Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.}
    book-quotewritingsmilewriter

  7. Nikki Sex _ Elizabeth's Bondage Boxed Set

    Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. André Chevalier"
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  8. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.
    book-quotehuman-naturehypocrisygood-people
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