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Quotes About Concealed

the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what hold up the rest.
~ Gail Caldwell
A mantrap may be under his ruddy-tipped daisies.
~ Herman Melville
En todas las cosas está oculto siempre un significado: de lo contrario, poco valdrían, y el mundo mismo no sería más que una cifra vacía
~ Herman Melville
I'm not that nice, I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying blah. I just keep my horrible side well hidden.
~ Hester Browne
were among these hobgoblins. Also immigrants, people on "welfare," and certain governments—Iraq, North Korea, Cuba. By turning attention to them, by inventing or exaggerating their dangers, the failures of the American system could be concealed. Immigrants were a convenient
~ Howard Zinn
I am a polite, nonthreatening kind of dragon with excellent manners. Horns are hidden, tail is tucked away, fangs covered. I would never do anything cruel, like stab a man with a knife about ten times to get him to answer a question.
~ Ilona Andrews
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
~ Jean Cocteau
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
~ Bruce Wilkinson
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.
~ Edith Wharton
As with all things, layer settles upon layer, and in time the deepest, darkest ones become forgotten – yet they have shaped all that lies above.
~ Steven Erikson
The perfect hero is one whose heroism none sees. The most precious glory is the glory lost on senseless winds. The highest virtue is the one that remains for ever hidden within oneself.
~ Steven Erikson
We're looking for grey-skinned murderers and they're hiding in these trees. Behind them, I mean. If they were in them, it'd hurt.
~ Steven Erikson
He had a secret life of which she knew nothing.
~ Storm Constantine
There has always been a softer side to Sushmita Sen. You might never see it, but there is one. And you will never see the 'real' Sushmita on screen.
~ Sushmita Sen
Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks
~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi
They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other, fate ties them together.
~ Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
~ Mohsin Hamid
You could be heroes and few would ever know. What does that feel like?
~ Mur Lafferty
It's very easy to claim you've summoned something that's invisible and incorporeal.
~ Naomi Novik
incomprehensible machinery working somewhere out of sight, keeping us all alive, suspended out of the world.
~ Naomi Novik
We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wir alle haben im Dachgeschoss der Seele ein Geheimnis unter Verschluss.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Exist? lucruri care nu se pot vedea decât pe întuneric.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The nameless grave could never be found
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon