Colleen Hoover Quotes

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.

I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

I used to bottle things up.

It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.