Quotes About Concealment

The safest place to hide a leaf is in a forest.

Now I think about how much shutting off was required, just to exist in day-to-day experience. You couldn't express shock at everyone dying right in front of your eyes, because shock felt like a form of cruelty. So you would act like everything might be okay, even when nothing was okay.

People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.

We're good at lying," Sebastian said, leaning over and managing a smile. "We've been doing it for years.

What serves on either side, and if you wish to hide, may protect you from your foe, or show him where to go?

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows.

La fe en lo sobrenatural empieza como fe en la superioridad ajena. Su rendición cobró la forma de un asentimiento que le obligaba a ocultar su falta de comprensión, a pensar que otros poseen cierto misterioso conocimiento de que él esta privado, que la realidad es aquello que los quieren que sea, gracias a un medio que a él siempre le será negado.

then, she knew better than most that the face a person chose to show the world wasn't always the real one. Everyone had a story. Not everyone wanted to share.

But suburbanization, probably more than any other single factor, hid the poor from view.

People were harder than horses. They hid their feeling. Or shut them off. (pg. 116)

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.

There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.

Sóli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She

He hid a scornful smile under his moustache, which is not a good hiding place.

we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.

A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within

No aru taka wa, tsume o kakusu, as the Japanese saying goes. The hawk with talent hides its talons.

know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn't know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn't know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don't know it, it's good again.

I know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn't know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn't know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don't know it, it's good again.