Quotes About Masking

Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility?

There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

Being invisible was hard work, unrewarding, soul-crushing work.

The car can smile all it wants, but that doesn't mean you can see the driver's expression.

the best way to hide in plain sight was to get fat.

Luna fought hard to keep all her emotions, even joy, under the radar. But when an unruly emotion surfaced, it was merely an opening act. Anger was always the headliner.

We were taught to always put on a good face, even when things are going poorly. We were told to "keep sweet," an admonition to be compliant and pleasant no matter the circumstance. Since we couldn't reveal our angry words and feelings, they got bottled up inside, and often there was no communication at all.

I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

I fool everybody!

And gave no outward signs of inward strife

Having to pretend nothing was wrong, when everything was wrong, was excruciating.

Hallie had had plenty of practice over the years at hiding her true feelings and presenting a brave face to the world.

He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.

We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secretthat some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else's smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip and attracted the right guy, a fake who had nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real…and who, when you got right down to it, didn't want to remember, because it hurt even more than this.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

The hardest thing isn't being sad. The hardest thing is being sad yet putting on a happy face around everyone.

Don't trust the man who always keeps smiling.

I've always been interested in masking, layering, dressing up and beautifying yourself and what that meant to black women. I've always wanted to make things that I haven't seen before.

The happy!! awesome!! rhetoric masks the fact that beneath the covers, there is chaos.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

heavy smoking are ways of denying life. They mask a deep feeling of being totally unworthy of existing. Scolding will not change the habit of smoking. It is the basic belief that must change first.

You can put perfume on a pig, but it still stinks!