Quotes About Concealment

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The whole surface of her body was covered with a coat of fine sand, which hid the details and brought out the feminine lines; she seemed a statue gilded with sand.

what they sold in the bar was the fake mask of alcohol.

thanks to the mask, signs of fatigue or shame showed on my face no more than on yours.

my real face, which was merely an incomplete copy of the mask...

If we had been far apart even before the accident, what was I trying to recapture at this late date with all the fuss about the mask? Nothing was worth the trouble of getting back. There wasn't a single thing to hide from the eight uneventful years we had spent together; since I was enclosed by a wall of nonexpression thicker than my bandages, I had lost all right to complain.

I couldn't see you, no matter how I tried, if you moved around like a jellyfish.

Yet, it was not I who should feel ashamed. If there was anyone who should suffer, was it not rather the world that had buried me alive, that made no attempt to recognize a man's personality without the passport of the face?

I was afraid of my own shadow as long as I imagined others to be looking at me, but when I was actually looked at, I seemed to become aware of my real character. Perhaps in my imagination the mask was something that exposed me, but in actuality it was an opaque means of concealment.

that Kashiwada could have the outward appearance of a human being yet have a demon lurking inside him.

Sie dachte noch an Unkes Maske, als sie einschlief, und im Halbschlaf fragte sie sich, ob nicht jedermann bisweilen eine Maske trug. Eine Maske der Freude, eine Maske der Trauer, eine Maske der Gleichgültigkeit. Eine Maske aus Ihr-seht-mich-nicht.

We discovered that the scrupulously strict were correspondently keen to discern suggestions of sex where nobody else would think of looking for them.

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

How am I to get back to my room dressed like this? He grinned at her, his teeth flashing whitely in the dim light from the fire. You'll leave a trail of water. Which the servants will report to your sister.

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.

She had dozens, even hundreds, of friends, but not one single person knew all of the pieces of her.

he knew that sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

Dementia was nothing if not a stroll through the many skeletons lining the family closet.

God does not have to dishonor himself, when he goes into the far country and conceals his glory.

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our own eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.