Quotes About Concealment

185. It Is Getting So Dark Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light.

A man you've had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore.

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

were holding a mirror up to the monster within, which was longing to escape

The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise— Foma

No me extrañaría que después de años de palabras escamoteadas Julián terminara teniéndole miedo a las elipsis—.

Turi remembers this strange feeling repeated throughout his life: who he thinks he is in his mind is sometimes not who others see or imagine he can be. This gap never seems to go away. Sometimes this secret self is comforting, for its privacy. Sometimes it is amusing, when he witnesses what crazy assumptions others have of him. Too often this gap is dispiriting, a prison inside of him without any means of escape.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

It may perhaps be pleasant, but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity.

Under this cloak is nothing but God. Introduce me as "Nobody, Son of Nobody".

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

We see the surface, blue or silver or gray, and waves hitting the shore. But we know there's so much we can't see, so what we love about it becomes in part what we imagine it is hiding.

Rollan didn't admit the other reason.

out of her sight.

Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there.

I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin.

There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all

Everybody thinks they know me

If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.