Quotes About Concealment

You smile, but it never really reaches the eyes.

She dabbed her eye. A sarcastic rejoinder came to my lips, but I bit it back.

Every house on every street is really just a family facade. We look at it and think we know what's going on inside, but we never really have any idea.

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Whitman's art: to promise absolute self-revelation and give us fresh gestures of evasion, hesitation, concealment. Better thus, though Walt proclaimed: "I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself." Stevens learned from Whitman "the intricate evasions of as.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-

If he's not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

her victim—of necessity she must put him away from her—he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense.

His private character was his public character.

How do you conceal a secret? With openness.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo podemos imaginárnoslo mirando la forma de las cosas que, de vez en cuando, suben a la superficie.

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now.

You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it's got nothing to do with you, but you're not really like that. In your own way, you're out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can't tell by looking at you.

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

Aunque logres ocultar los recuerdos, o enterrarlos muy hondo, no puedes borrar la Historia. Más vale que se te quede grabado, la Historia no puede borrarse ni alterarse. Porque significaría matarte a ti mismo.

Once you've hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.

One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. -from Heart the Wind Sing

The pursuer's blind spot is that he never thinks he's being pursued.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

You have let something out of the bag before you yourself knew what it was all about. That can be awfully dangerous