Quotes About Concealment

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993)

We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.

He didn't want to say the word alive. And not just because it seemed so silly, putting that on an official record, but also because, alone in his cabin, it suddenly felt like the ship was listening. He didn't want it to hear him.

She threw off her coat and hefted the machine gun concealed inside it. It was a Vektor SS77: heavy and awkward, but capable of nine hundred rounds a minute. Four steps to her right took her out of the crowd. She dropped to her knee and squeezed the trigger.

Thrice all that was fine and sweet in her had leapt forth, only to be scourged back into hiding. Poor heart inhibited!

What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge.

They realized that the best way to mask what they were doing was to hide it in plain sight. Instead of lying about the sweeps themselves, they just lied about what they were sweeping for.

Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. (...) Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung (finde ich) ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.

There is always some sleight of hand going on in writing autobiography. So much has to be left out, especially things that might hurt or dismay people. But in a novel one can say everything. The novel is often autobiography distilled and / or transcended.

Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.

We wear the mask that grins and lies. It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes. This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties. Why should the world think otherwise In counting all our tears and sighs. Nay let them only see us while We wear the mask.

No one mentioned his(Bailey's) absence as if things were as they should be and always were.

In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

The thing about secrets, though, is that they get out. And trust me, if you've got a secret, eventually, it's going to get out.

He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.

Archie asked if I'd told my parents about him, and I said I hadn't. How much longer are you going to keep me in the closet? he said. It's dark in here. And I keep stepping on your shoes.

I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?

and Schuyler hoped with all her heart that he would never find out the truth.

They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.: