Quotes About Concealment

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

She is the darkness.

Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It's bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways.

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A public man, though he is necessarily available at many times, must learn to hide. If he is always available, he is not worth enough when he is available.

That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.

Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there.

and won out of her a stiff unused smile.

A secret face only the dreamers can see. Awake, you can't see the truths beneath the surface.

And, like a mother to herself, she would never forget that girl on a bicycle, though she would never mention her to anyone, never breathe a word.

Le parole erano come una pelle invisibile, che avvolgeva il mondo rendendolo reale.

I've seen that look on cabinet ministers," Merton observed quietly. "When they were stuffed full of too many secrets.

because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin

But inevitably, after all the hardware questions had been answered, Breen would circle down to the question he'd really wanted to ask: What's it like to blow some unsuspecting raghead's shit away from a thousand yards? Carl always answered the same way: I tried not to think about that side of it, sir. It was a job, and I focused on the mechanics of it. Guys like Ray Breen never grasped the true nature of sniping. It was as much about concealment as it was about shooting.

How hard do we work to blind ourselves to things that we don't want to see?

The Secret History.

Humor was the curtain she put around everything.

Scraping away the dirt from a secret doesn't always set you free. Sometimes it's the very opposite.

It isn't Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.

Kathy's death, and what he'd done to get rid of her body, was an anvil pitched on Dave's shoulders. He knew he could never erase what he'd done. He thought of how Kathy's family would always wonder where she'd gone, and if she was happy.

For someone who always had so much to hide, Shelly had become an expert at keeping things out of view. It was a skill that would help her keep the darkest secrets from her family.

Getting rid of a body did not get easier as he got more practiced at it.

It's easy to forget that inside her cool and placid exterior is a human being. Not nice to think, I