Quotes About Masks

I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven't you?

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

Las personas son como la luna. Siempre tienen un lado oscuro que no enseñan a nadie. Mark Twain

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

No one reveals himself as he is; we all wear a mask and play a role. - On Psychology

Even the stars had been obscured, their light stolen by Dyson masks: dense orbiting habitat clouds, even solid spheres, asteroids and planets dismantled and made into traps for every stray photon. It was a depressing sight: an engineered sky, a sky full of scaffolding and ruins.

The horrible monsters in this world are the ones that wear human face

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.

I had become very good by then at smiling and saying nothing at all.

Eccentricity is one of those English traits that looks like frailty but masks a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.

live a double life, to love those around you while concealing your true inner self, to appear to be one person to the external world and quite another inside.

They wear masks that hide how hairy they are on the inside.

The vultures group themselves on the roof like pigeons: tiny moron head, long necks, faces like Carnival masks, and dusty plumages, peering this and that attentively for death.

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

Prison pulls the masks away from men. You can't hide what you are, in prison. You can't pretend to be tough. You are, or you're not, and everyone knows it.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

Even at the age of eighteen, he thought suddenly, she had been an expert in the wearing of masks. One would never have known that the sunny-natured girl had grown up in such a home.

her parents roared around in the masks of monsters. Not

We're good at lying," Sebastian said, leaning over and managing a smile. "We've been doing it for years.

then, she knew better than most that the face a person chose to show the world wasn't always the real one. Everyone had a story. Not everyone wanted to share.

People were harder than horses. They hid their feeling. Or shut them off. (pg. 116)