28 Quotes About Holding-back

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.

Ares’s power was causing my anger. He’d love it if I attacked. I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction.

Tell me I’m crazy for thinking you’re holding back from me as much as I’m hiding you.

She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn’t that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother’s life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

She felt it all right at the back of her throat, like a bomb – or a tiger – sitting on the base of her tongue. Keeping it in made her eyes water.

People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.