Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

Penelope Douglas
About This Quote

The author is a man who never wanted to let anyone know how much he was hurting from being in love with a girl he could not have. He never let himself feel the emotions that these words were expressing. This phrase is used when someone does not feel emotions they would normally feel because they are in a position where they cannot express them. In this quote, the author is in a position where he can't show his feelings so he hides them in his words.

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