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“I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me”
― Laurie Matthew, Groomed

“If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too...”
― Gosho Aoyama, Detective Conan: Showdown with the Phantom Thief Kid Special Edition

“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours.
Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful...”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

("New York Blues")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

“It's time to forget about the past,

To wash away what happened last,

Hide behind an empty face,

Don't act too much, just say,

'Cause this is just a game.”
― 30 Seconds to Mars

“I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.
Anonymous.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Search your heart. He's there, Kate. You can ignore Him, try to run and hide from Him, even convince yourself that He's not there, but He promised us that he would never leave or forsake us." He tipped his head to the side. "Kind of like how you promised not to leave Maggie when she was going through labor. Maggie still had to go through it. You couldn't take her pain away, but you were there to hold her hand, to encourage her, to make sure she knew she wasn't alone, and when it was all said and done, something beautiful came out of what she endured.”
― Jen Stephens, The Heart's Journey Home

“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

“After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But when they say to a child that "Bibi" is passing by, every child is hiding for "Bibi". What makes the difference is the impacts.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“a soul is far too large to hide.”
― Maggie Schein

“I'm a mite worried about how Foodle will respond to being out here," her aunt continued. "She's so sensitive to strange surroundings." Foodle apparently excelled at hiding her sensitivities, for she was chasing her tail with great enthusiasm.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, Dance of Seduction