Quotes About Concealment

The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.

The guy I'm thinking of doesn't really look like me-not exactly. It's more that he looks like…like everyone…and no one…all at the same time. It's as if he let go of his true self…so he could play any part…be whomever someone else most desired him to be. I don't see how that could make anyone very happy.

we live now in circumstances that encourage rather than discourage lying; evidence and activity are more easily concealed, and the need to rely on demeanor as an indicator of a person's truthfulness is greater. And our evolutionary history has not prepared us to be very sensitive to the behavioral clues relevant to lying.

Beauty doesn't see itself and when it does something is lost.

My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.

It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent.

she slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.

He got to his feet and stumbled away from the stench of his vomit, making his way through this graveyard of old glories, heading for the darkest place he could find in which to hide his giddy head.

So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind?

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, because in the end, whatever goes down, whatever you get up to, your triumphs and transgressions, nobody actually understands what it means except for you.

You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if not without.

I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.

No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

The boys knew to hide their enthusiasm over little kid things that still had an allure.

There are those of us who haven't yet told our stories, or refuse to tell them, and so we become them: we hide away inside the memory until we can no longer stand the shell or the shock - perhaps I must tell it before it is forgotten or becomes like everything else, something else.

no one can resist what they can't detect".

One may howl with the wolves, if need be, but when doing so, one should be, I would urge, a sheep in wolf's clothing.

flanks. The pocket scope penetrated the dark shadows that his eyes could not. He paid particular attention to the base of the trees that bordered the path. He was looking for the telltale shoe of someone who was seeking to conceal himself. After five minutes

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

obscuris vera involvens:

Latet arbore opaca aureus et foliis et lento vimine ramus

at ramum hunc' (aperit ramum, qui veste latebat) 'adgnoscas.

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.