"No more pretending for him! He was completely and openly a mess.  Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other."

-Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son (pg. 118)

"I'd pretend ignorance to get you to stay. If I thought you could be fooled. But only people with wants can be fooled and you have none."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason (pg. 95)