“The world can be quite an ugly place. But we cannot wish that ugliness away. We cannot hide from that ugliness.”— Margaret Atwood, Aunt Lydia, Ann Dowd, imdb.com
“Well, good, that’s the idea. You scare the shit out of people so they can’t see how scared you are.”— Gia Carangi, xys-t.tumblr.com
“I'm like, physically incapable of sneaking.”— Lizzie McGuire, Lizzie McGuire, Hillary Duff, imdb.com
“My darling, you can’t see it, can you? How like the moon you are. Both of you so timid in yourselves; hiding pieces from the world. Then, there are those rare moments when you both are full, and it becomes hard to look away. You are beautiful.”— Alexandria Drzewiecki, maidenmermaid.wordpress.com
“I wonder,’ wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect and walk into freedom.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“I’ve always hid from my emotions. I’ve always run to the bathroom and cried instead of letting anybody see it.”— Gabbie Hanna, youtube.com
“She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I want to stop running away from everything. I want to find something to run toward.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.”— Sarah Cross, amazon.com
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Sometimes she hides in moments I wish I had.”— Noah A. Nemley on Muses (via LEGENDMEDIA), quotemadness.com
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I often don’t say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you’d never guess from looking at me.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com