Quotes About Masking

Something sordid and evil lay behind her recent fortunes here yet she displaying nothing of the desperation she surely must feel.

I will give you a little hint," Emma said with a wry smile. "A whore's trick, but a good one. It's a part that you're playing, like a grand actress on the stage. It isn't you. It has nothing to do with you. You're simply using your body in service to something necessary. You can smile and flirt and dance and pretend you're someone entirely different, and it won't matter. You, the real you, will still be safe inside.

Yes, he's a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he's on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I'm making real progress though. (Caleb)

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

I spent much of my life hiding.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad...

Perceval smiled inside, but she would not let her lips curve. No one must see her mirth at an execution-no one except the executed, who would know it without being shown.

The trick to hiding something, she'd told him once, is to put it right out in plain sight.

This is my social face," he said lightly. "Don't confuse it with the animal beneath.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Most people don't realise there's certain things that players go through off the field. Most times, guys are good at hiding things.

I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Yeah! I'm eccedentesiast because I know No-one is going to understand my pain.

It's like when someone says, 'How are you?' do you say, 'Well, mt head hurts and I'm lonely and depressed and I'm worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I'm fine?

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.