Quotes About Guardedness

Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like someone like that? They all keep an eye on me, but I'm just glad they didn't bother me. They might hate me, or even afraid of me.

You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

I've been deceived too often; I've ceased to form attachments, to permit myself to feel attractions.

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

I lack trust in others.

The boys ate warily, trying not to be seen or heard, the cornbread sticking, the buttermilk gurgling, as it went down their gullets.

I trust no one totally.

You can't trust people.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.

Everyone holds secrets that need protecting.

I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, "Take whatever you want; just go.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.

No, prudent people didn't leave their feelings hanging out; didn't leave themselves vulnerable.