Quotes About Guarded

Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you--and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.

guarded by height-challenged mining engineers

His tightly compressed lips expressed a fierce determination and a guarded nature.

Secrets are the prisons we make for ourselves.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.

Guarded curiosity.

They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he'd always been so guarded about his private life?

I am not easy to break through to. There is a protective shield that I have built psychologically. I am not open to everyone as I have been to ones those who have broken through me. But once you break through, I will love anything that you do.

I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?' 'because you'll just end up using it against me.

Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice.

Amalia smiled, and that smile, although a sad one, lit up her sombre face, made her silence eloquent and her strangeness familiar. It was like the telling of a secret, a hitherto closely guarded possession that could be taken back, but never taken back entirely.

she stopped herself from being hurt long, long ago by not letting herself love anybody or anything.

It is embarrassing how feeble I feel, how timidly I move through life, always guarded, ready to defend myself, ready to be angry.

In seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul.

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

In an odd way, she felt more kinship with the mysterious Lord of the Wild Hunt than with anyone at Seelie Court . . . at least since Bella had gone. No one knew who the Lord of the Wild Hunt was. His identity, and that of his host, was closely guarded. Too bad, since she'd like to meet him sometime, no matter that he resided in the Black.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

I am quite private about my personal life, and I don't talk much about it.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

All right, I say. I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?