Quotes About Guardedness

All right, I say. I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

He started to explain his position, trying to get me to engage. I secretly shut my heart to him completely. I forgot that this hurts only me.

must say, if ever I do come across a man who seems to feel for me at all, I immediately assume he's actually quite shallow-hearted, so I have no need to expose myself to potential embarrassment.

There's no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

I really don't like showing my hand.

His eyes say quite plainly that he once trusted someone, that he has been repenting it for longer than you or I have been alive, and that he will never take the chance again.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Of course I have secrets.

I'm a little bit tough because I can't afford to get my heart broken.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

You'll pardon me," he finally said, "if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

She had so much more capacity for love than I had - I couldn't bring down that curtain round the moment, I couldn't forget and I couldn't not fear. Even in the moment of love, I was like a police officer gathering evidence of a crime that hadn't yet been committed [...]

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

When it comes to expressing emotions," Gullotti said, "you're kind of like...a stone wall. There are some cracks and gaps here and there, but mostly it's just rock.

I never ask no questions, I never speak my mind. I've always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive ...' Judas Priest

And that is something else you do . . . You joke a great deal about yourself so that no one can get close to really knowing you.

to play everything close to the vest.

Why does she look like she's hiding something?

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

I trust no one totally.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

If prison teaches you one thing, it's how to deaden yourself. You show nothing. Ever. You never allow yourself anything, even an emotion, because it will either be exploited or taken away.