Quotes About Concealment

cover and concealment.

It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.

Nature did not blend things so inextricably that you can't draw your own boundaries—place your own well-being in your own hands. It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that.

It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that.

By my twenty-second birthday, you know, I had killed eight men. Eight that I was certain of, eight that I could plainly count. That information was stuffed deep within my gut, and if anyone ever asked if I killed someone during the war, particularly if a child ever asked, I vowed I'd shake my head no, that information was never coming out.--SHIFTY'S WAR

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

A hatred not shown and which remains concealed, is to be feared more than that which is openly voiced.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Below me, in the foundations of the house, I could hear the clothes I'd buried there growing themselves a body.

Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women.

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs. Does she want more than that –more of him? Does she want the whole picture?

They'd like to see through me, but nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes.

We can't remember what it is that we've forgotten. That we have been made to forget.

Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.

I did not give him a straight answer, because saying what you really want out loud brings bad luck, and then the good thing will never happen. It might not happen anyway, but just to make sure, you should be careful about saying what you want or even wanting anything, as you may be punished for it.