Quotes About Concealment

I decided that if he noticed my notebooks, I'd say that I was writing in my diary. A safe girl-thing to be doing.

Will you tell me?" I asked. "Tell you what?" He spoke flatly, as if he dreaded my question and already knew that he would answer it. "What you did." "Why do you think that knowing makes a difference?" "I've thought that all my life." "Well, you're wrong. Knowing don't mean shit.

I felt myself blush with disappointment. I looked away, afraid that they would see it.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

She crept up on me.

So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.

I've no use for liars. What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?

Above all I am hoping for trees, which may afford me some means of concealment and food and shelter. Often there are trees because barren landscapes are dull and the Games resolve too quickly without them.

Qué son las mentiras, sino intentos por ocultar algún tipo de debilidad?

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

tengo mucha experiencia en no demostrar mis sentimientos, y eso es lo que hago.

he doesn't meet my eyes.

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

They had all come here to have their babies in secret and to give up their flesh and blood for adoption. In Alice's mind, the rooms and the hallway echoed with their silent tears; the carpets absorbed their sorrow and the curtains soaked up their despair

We're all guilty of hiding things—it's the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

We hide our feelings, we hide our past, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

The science of Hatha should be kept top secret by the yogi desirous of success. It is potent when concealed and impotent when revealed. The Hatha yogi should live in a secluded hut free of stones, fire, and dampness to a distance of four cubits in a country that is properly governed, virtuous, prosperous, and peaceful.