“The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.”
“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
“Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.”
“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
“There is no use of pretending in front of people who had repented pretending to be someone else.”
“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”