Quotes About Facade

I knew Amena well enough by now to recognize she was feigning polite interest to disguise horrified interest.)

Hudson's house. It was bungalow style with a stone façade

You possess a young face and a wise tongue. People hate that. They know it could fool them.

La facultate, prietenii nostri ne-au considerat mereu un cuplu fericit. Si chiar eram. Mai putin in cealalta jumatate a timpului in care eram un cuplu nefericit.

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.

She'd learned to be composed in public, even as she was once again most likely falling apart.

They all played it so straight, as if they were just girls, girls with gentle smiles and simple needs. But the truth was they all lived in a gasp of tension.

Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing.

All facade, all vacant, enjoyment without sustenance, celebration without boundaries or purpose.

I got it together, of course. I always did. I pushed away what shamed me and made me unhappy, and I smoothed out the rest to make a pretty, perfect surface. It was getting harder and harder to do.

I put a smile on and pretended it was real.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

You always seem so in control." "And you don't?" He laughed, but somehow not humorously. There was a darkness in his eyes that had nothing to do with color. "I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not. Sometimes I think that this life is shit. I mean, don't you find it pathetic?

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves, and to our spouses--our spouses in particular, for that matter. It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

You're like the figures you display in your shop. A beautiful thing, shiny in sunlight, but at the core—poured metal, cold stone.

Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.

The White House, realized former naval officer Steve Bannon after a few weeks, was really a military base, a government-issue office with a mansion's façade and a few ceremonial rooms sitting on top of a secure installation under military command.