Quotes About Privacy

Mister Singer reminded her of this music. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram full of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded.

I can't just open myself up the way some people can. And down here, you're raised a certain way. You're taught to keep some things private, family matters especially. It's just the way it's done. Everyone worships the past but no one really wants to talk about it.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.

I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you.

What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.

She was nicknamed the graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you'd never know.

She was nicknamed The Graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you'd never know.

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission being asked and granted.

You got no right being in my head. That's..trespassing

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom.

Shall we stay out here, so we won't wake your friends? It was news to me that our conversation was going to last that long. Apparently, Bill hadn't come over just to borrow a cup of blood.

someone left an anonymous letter under the windshield wiper of my car. Getting an anonymous letter is not a pleasant experience.

You have some cities that are saying that if you have a man who feels like he's a woman, he can use the women's restroom. I guarantee you that will be taken advantage of by some very bad men who want to go into a bathroom where there's young ladies. That will happen if you pass a law like that.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

I know nothing about meetings between clubs, and I don't want to know anything about them.

I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background.

I'm not a member of any faith community, and I think faith is a deeply personal issue that individuals should deal with in their private lives.

Don't you talk to me about members of the Royal Family, you know I am not going to talk about them. Diana's dead. Talking about dead people is history.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.