Quotes About Concealment

Hide!' she whispered. 'The vegetarians are coming.

Slowly, over the years, Estha withdrew from the world. He grew accustomed to the uneasy octopus that lived inside him and squirted its inky tranquilizer on his past. Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it.

Iba por el mundo como un camaleón. Nunca mostraba su verdadero ser, y se las arreglaba para que no se notara. Siempre salía ileso del caos.

People may hate being embarrassed and strive not to show it when they are, but embarrassment serves an important good. For, unlike sadness or anger or even love, it is fundamentally a moral emotion

I felt disguised behind those glasses, less exposed, somehow freer.

feared that the autopsy would uncover an error.

But this is all about how very difficult it is at times for people to see who or what they are looking at, particularly when they don't want to.

I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again so I wouldn't have to actually face them.

Riding back from the grocery store, I realized my father was two men—one he presented to the outside world, and one, far darker, that was always there, behind the face everybody else saw. In my bedroom late that

In a way, I am a psychological transsexual, always trying to pass for a normal person but being clocked every time.

It is astonishingly satisfying to look at him and think Closet Case, and know he can read my mind as he looks away flushed. All Mormons are gay, I believe. Rick is merely a further example.

We never sampled our drugs because we were afraid of them, but to admit it aloud would have broken the spell.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see

And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this moment; if they knew that she was thinking of a man in a quarry, thinking of his body with a sharp intimacy as one does not think of another's body but only of one's own. She smiled; the cold purity of her face prevented them from seeing the nature of that smile.

History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury. — HILARY MANTEL

It was an odd thing about Boston, Crown officials observed. A confidential, early-morning insinuation could blossom into common knowledge by evening. Yet when 342 crates of tea immersed themselves in water, no one had seen a thing.

History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury. — HILARY MANTEL "I

Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to. ... Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.

If I were a man I might not wear the cloak of anonymity.

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

You see things. You keep quiet about them. You understand.

One boy has it particularly hard. I won't tell you his name. But I will tell you all about him. He has very nice brown hair, and he wears it long with a ponytail. I think he will regret this when he looks back on his life.