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Quotes About Concealed

A blush only reminds me how blood is just under the surface of everything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A mystery is not something that cannot be known, but something that for the time being is hidden.
~ Clarence Larkin
Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw—what mattered were your major streets and boulevards, the stuff that showed up on other people's maps of you.
~ Colson Whitehead
but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if not without.
~ Colson Whitehead
The secret triumph you keep in your heart.
~ Colson Whitehead
There's a snake hidden in the grass. Virgil. Ecologues,no. 3.1.1o8
~ Virgil
Et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus...
~ Virgil
pledge of a love that were better unnamed
~ Virgil
My mouth to him was a splendid cave full of priceless treasures, but I denied him entrance.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Pero los recuerdos nunca se desvanecen sin más. Permanecen ocultos y nos acechan desde los rincones más oscuros de nuestra mente.
~ Laura Gallego García
Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there.
~ Laura Wilson
It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.
~ Lauren Willig
Therefore, in this seemingly patriarchal mystery tradition (Sûfîsm), we see that woman is the Hidden Initiatrix, the Shadow Guide, the Blackness that births the Light. 'Da tariki, tariqat' - "In the darkness, the Path," is a Sufic maxim. The void has been described as a dark cave, a shadowy mihrab, the Concealed or Secret Radiance, the Black Stone of the Ka'ba, Ghayb ul-Ghaib ( Mystery of Mysteries ), Amma (Darkness), and returning to the Womb of Fatima ('Alaiha Assalam) the Mother.
~ Laurence Galian
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but his ardour was all the more evident for the reins with which he restrained it, the mask of steel behind which he imprisoned it, his detached demeanour and deliberate gestures that, far from parading a lack of interest, displayed the strength of his self-discipline, that he could so tightly curb the intensity of his passion.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths.
~ Celeste Ng
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it
~ Charles de Montesquieu
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
~ Charles Dickens
Blind, blind, blind . . .
~ Charles Dickens
It will do her no good to keep herself concealed from me at this moment," said Madame Defarge. "Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see her. Go tell her that I wish to see her. Do you hear?
~ Charles Dickens
What Mr Chivery thought of these things, or how much or how little he knew about them, was never gathered from himself. It has been already remarked that he was a man of few words; and it may be here observed that he had imbibed a professional habit of locking everything up.
~ Charles Dickens
I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.
~ Charles Dickens
All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.
~ Samuel Butler
Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.
~ Greg Behrendt
I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
~ Greg Iles