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Quotes About Concealed

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
~ John Lennon
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
~ John Lennon
Perceval smiled inside, but she would not let her lips curve. No one must see her mirth at an execution-no one except the executed, who would know it without being shown.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Rim had kept secrets from the Core. The Core kept secrets from Rim: no surprises there. One of the stranger benefits of having once been someone else was that the someone she had been knew how much was concealed. And sometimes even had a general idea of what not to ask about in order to ensure everyone's comfort or continued peace of mind. Or, in this case, where exactly to shine the light.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I see what Gabe sees in her, the fracturing brilliance of intellect concealed beneath that quiet exterior. There's someone in there, someone as deep as Lake Ontario and sharp as a switchblade, unconventional and oddly ruthless.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible
~ Elizabeth Brundage
Beauty depends on the unseen, George quoted the artist, the visible upon the invisible.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-sights that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.
~ Elizabeth Hay
They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-eighths that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.
~ Elizabeth Hay
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
~ Elizabeth Peters
invisible and yet having a spotlight on
~ Elizabeth Strout
I am hidden and I am not.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.
~ Arthur W. Pink
There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Customary outside, inconsolable inside!
~ Ashima
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Dicen que uno acaba pareciéndose a la imagen que los otros se forman de uno; peor sería que apareciesen en el rostro los estigmas de nuestras obsesiones y anhelos postergados, esos que forman nuestra verdadera pero oculta imagen.
~ Augusto Roa Bastos
There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
~ Elizabeth Marvel
You clearly love him! Your fears, your terror, all of that is still born of love, and love of that most exquisite kind, the kind that one does not admit even to oneself. The kind that gives you a thrill when you think of it.
~ Gaston Leroux
I have a bird. Inside." She patted the flat stomach below her small breasts, and for a moment Nicholas thought she had really found food. "She sits in here. She has tangled a nest in my entrails, where she sits and tears at my breath with her beak. I look healthy to you, don't I? But inside I'm hollow and rotten and turning brown, dirt and old feathers, oozing away. Her beak will break through soon.
~ Gene Wolfe
A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.
~ Ralph Lauren
The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
~ Samuel Beckett
Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.
~ Samuli Paronen
It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.
~ Sara Shepard