“ You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day. Ahmed Mostafa
“ He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup. John Updike
“ Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world. Kathy Acker
“ I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world. Anthony Liccione
“ I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited. Elisa Albert
“ He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy. Jennifer Crusie
“ Not much to her credit to go through her life thinking, Well, good, now that's over, over. What was she looking forward to, what bonus was she hoping to get, when this, and this, and this, was over?F… Alice Munro
“ If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it. Crystal Woods
“ I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I conclu… Catherine Lacey
“ Sure, you can break a man. Bend his will, even, but be careful with the ones that break easily. Those are the ones you have to keep a close eye on. Those are the ones that play possum and hide in the… Joe Reyes
“ At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going through the motions. Your handshakes with strangers are firm and your gaze never wavers; you think o… Dexter Palmer
“ Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being… Susan Sontag
“ He’d read in a textbook once a quote by the famous Captain Reynolds: I am not a brave man. But bravery, like most things, can be faked. And sometimes, in rare instances, it will lead to the real thing… Dan Krokos
“ [P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, o… Norman Spinrad
“ Dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone. Nina LaCour
“ How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others thi… Katie McGarry
