Quotes About Concealment

You didn't need it anyway, it attracted too much attention. Better with only a shadow. Someone wants your shadow.

What you don't know won't hurt you.

Even guppies have their opacities.

We fight in whispers or well out of the way, because if we're caught we will both be punished. For this reason we don't tell on each other. We know from experience that the satisfactions of betrayal are scarcely worth it.

Disguise is easier when you're young.

It was a problem in comic books: drawing an invisible man.

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. Yes, we are very happy, I murmur. I have to say something. What else can I say?

Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.

But it wasn't more honestly that would have saved me, I thought; it was more dishonesty. In my experience, honesty and expressing your feelings could lead to only one thing. Disaster.

There was a pot of boiling rage on a private stove behind their closed curtains:

Can we envision our own face? I think not. I think we imagine ourselves invisible, with no face at all, able to blend perfectly with everything around us.

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.

She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Misdirect ALL the time.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.