“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
“Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.”
“Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?”
“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.”
“It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.”
“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.”