Quotes About Concealment

To miniaturize is also to conceal.

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.

In spaces too small for light to crawl I'll hide everything I own. I'll keep you there for safety. I'll build a shelter for your fears. I'll be your own suicide bomber, a satellite in the dwindling orbits, a mortal Om.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

The dead bodies were so visible that almost no one could see what had happened to them.

It was as if the unassuming little fellow had all these months been concealing a blunderbuss beneath his coat, and now he rose and suddenly revealed it to the rotund North, who sat there aghast and goggle-eyed, fingering his slingshot.

a seed had been pressed into the soil of his soul, and had been watered, and would soon burst and sprout green and grow beyond all possibility of concealing.

We hide in plain sight, and it works. Majestically . Everyone else can fuck the fuck off.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

The 'equilibrium' that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It's only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

The coming battle was waiting like a fox in the shadows.

Upset? I'm not upset. You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood....

Hollypaw cut him off. "No cat must know! Not when we don't know exactly what the prophecy means.

Your secret has been like a maggot eating away inside an apple

But you can't see me.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.

Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.