Quotes About Privacy

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

Why would you know?" "I wouldn't," I said. "I don't know anything about you.

He doesn't seem to have a private life, only a secret life which appears to overlap and even be a part of his work life.

I decided that if he noticed my notebooks, I'd say that I was writing in my diary. A safe girl-thing to be doing.

Ah. That was what he was doing. Once they were beneath the covers, no one would be able to tell if they were making love or simply trying on each other's underwear. Especially if they turned off the lights.

I know it's none of my business, but does Wes know that you've got a thing for his sister?

I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say.

Everybody seems to know my secrets before I know them myself

There's no question of privacy. When it comes to my body, we have no secrets, these three people and me.

To tell or not to tell?

You do have the sense that we might be under surveillance here.

I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day." Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.

It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

I think there is something special about living in a small town. Everyone knows your business and there is an intimacy you don't get in a large town.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

Sometimes I want to bury myself in bed, and I don't want anyone to know anything about me, and I don't want anyone to judge me.

It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing - which I think is what we have - gives us '1984.'

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.