Artifice Quote by Emily Thorne
““All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.””
![“Usually the secrets we keep deep down, ain't meant to hurt other people [...]. Not saying they won't, but not through intentions. Those deep secrets, we hide away because we're afraid what other people might think. How they might judge us, if they knew. And nobody's judgment we scared of more than…” quote by P. Djèlí Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c34/p-dj-l-clark-171965_judgment_usually-the-secrets-we-keep-deep-down-ai_2916171.jpg)
