“Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.”
“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”
“He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.”
“The best part of hiding is being found.”
“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")”
“Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.”