Quotes About Guardedness

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

Never trust the woman

I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

I have a hard time not wearing my heart on my sleeve and answering people honestly. You know, my friends warn me that I should be more guarded 'cause sometimes I am too honest and open, but it's also just who I am.

The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow)

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.

You don't know what it's like to have to hide all the time.

None of us offered to shake hands. There was no advantage to letting somebody get hold of you.

there. She'd learned not to grow attached to anyone, too fond of anyone, so there could be no surprises and no hurt.

Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.

For me, meeting new people was generally an unfortunate necessity, not an interest. Anabelle Farren might have actually been an exception for me, if I hadn't been absolutely confident that she — or Nakht — was about fifty percent likely to obliterate me if I said the wrong thing. That sort of thing made it hard for me to be enthusiastic,

If you knew the real me, you'd want to keep your distance from me. Seriously.

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

Never let them know how you feel or what you are thinking. If they know how you feel they know how to hurt you, and if they hurt you once, they will try again.

"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.