Quotes About Concealment

Cuando el monstruo fracasa, no le queda sino desaparecer.

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Porque es un poco así, el tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando, no le vemos andar.

Deep down, I'm afraid you're correct," Sister Eileen said finally. "But I can hardly bear the thought of someone we know being a murderer." "Eileen," Mary Helen said bluntly, "every murderer is someone somebody knows." The

Apperance gave no clue to our identity, and neither did our behavior.

People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside.

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details.

We can see the smoke of a burning home, but who can know of a burning heart? MALAY SAYING

Nothing is ever as it seems. We hide our reality from the outside world and from each other. We float along on process, Anthony and I—What will we have for dinner, did you call your mother, what time do you think you'll be home? Phone calls and kisses and thank-you notes. You can lose a whole life on that.

You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us." "I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren." "Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path.

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of my cutting. What they did not know would not cause them pain.

Looking at me, one would think that I'm alive…I'm not alive. I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it'. (Moorehead, 2011, 317)

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.

My heart's in the right place. I know, cuz I hid it there.

It was hiding in plain sight. Mocking the suggestion that anything was going on; therefore, it couldn't be true. A technique I like to use to this day.

that's a pretty big lie by omission

But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the world was a shame he couldn't bear.

Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night.

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.