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Quotes About Concealment

Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.
~ Gregory Maguire
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.
~ Gustave Flaubert
las palabras exageradas que ocultaban medianas afecciones
~ Gustave Flaubert
avec un long frémissement et se cachant la figure, elle s'abandonna.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Život koji sam potiskivao u sebe stisnuo se u srce i stezao ga da ga zadavi.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Zar se ne rugaju onima koji ljube, jer to ljudi smatraju kao sramotu; svatko, od stida ili od sebi?nosti, sakriva ono najbolje i najosjetljivije što ima u duši; da te cijene, moraš pokazivati samo svoje najružnije strane, samo tako možeš da budeš jednak svima drugima.
~ Gustave Flaubert
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Cât de plin? de pl?ceri ar fi viaÈ›a, dac? am putea fi siguri de alÈ›ii c? vom p?stra t?cerea. Ceea ce È›ine în frâu pe femei adesea, foarte adesea, aproape întotdeauna, e frica de a nu se descoperi secretul.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because I am a deep, cool pyramid. Go through me. Pass through all my rooms and know my subterfuge. But you are passing right by the little room that I want to keep closed, and you don't see it. There is a secret. I myself do not know it, I just know it exists.
~ Helene Cixous
better to meet a ghoul, which one can see, than a bhole, which one cannot see.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
When it comes to horror, I always prefer the nebulous & the implied to the physical & the described.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Ammi would give me no added particulars of this scene, but the shape in the comer does not reappear in his tale as a moving object. There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.
~ H.W. Brands
Dimonte spit into the can again, trying hard to cover up his obvious body language. "We're still working on it." "Uh, let's pretend for a brief moment that I'm not a mentally dehydrated numb nut.
~ Harlan Coben
What about Gloria Katz and Susan Milano?" Myron asked. "Where are they?" Cole smiled without mirth or humor. Myron saw the missing teeth and wondered if they were part of the disguise or something more sinister. "I'll tell you about them another time," he said. Myron
~ Harlan Coben
that looked like something out of an
~ Harlan Coben
Myron went on. "Horace never knew, did he?" Arthur shook his head. "Anita got pregnant early in our relationship. But Brenda still ended up dark enough to pass. Anita insisted we keep it a secret. She didn't want our child stigmatized. She also—she also didn't want our daughter raised in this house. I understood.
~ Harlan Coben
Yes. In the meantime, arm yourself." "I'll pick up a gun when I get back," Myron said. "No need to wait. There is a thirty-eight under your seat." Terrific. Myron reached under his seat, felt the bump. "Anything else I need to know?" "I birdied the last hole. Shot two under par for the round." "Talk about burying the lead." "I was trying to be modest." "I
~ Harlan Coben
I might be good at what I do, but despite the fact that King's Cross station is indeed where Harry Potter headed off for Hogwarts, I do not possess an invisibility cloak.
~ Harlan Coben
Foot traffic was picking up. The girl who'd hurled the crushed can was now making out with her target. Ah, the French. A traffic officer started gesturing for a white van to stop blocking traffic. I turned and waited for Terese to answer. She put down her coffee. "I can't imagine." But there was a catch in her throat. A tell, if you were playing cards with her. She wasn't lying. I was pretty sure of that. But she wasn't telling me everything either.
~ Harlan Coben
A jej makija? wygl?da? na zrobiony w ciemnej szafie kulkami do paintballu.
~ Harlan Coben